Phosphorylase a
"Phosphorylase a" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The active form of GLYCOGEN PHOSPHORYLASE that is derived from the phosphorylation of PHOSPHORYLASE B. Phosphorylase a is deactivated via hydrolysis of phosphoserine by PHOSPHORYLASE PHOSPHATASE to form PHOSPHORYLASE B.
| Descriptor ID |
D010762
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D08.811.913.400.450.460.400.280
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Begum N, Sussman KE, Draznin B. Calcium-induced inhibition of phosphoserine phosphatase in insulin target cells is mediated by the phosphorylation and activation of inhibitor 1. J Biol Chem. 1992 Mar 25; 267(9):5959-63.