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The enzyme that runs the cell's economy by taxing ATP to phosphorylate everything.
means An enzyme that transfers a phosphate group from ATP onto another molecule, flipping it into an active or inactive state.
from Coined from the Greek 'kinein' meaning 'to move' — the same root that gives us 'kinetic' and 'cinema' — because these enzymes drive the molecular motion of metabolism. The '-ase' suffix is the standard enzyme tag, itself traced back to 'diastase,' one of the first enzymes ever named.
- job
- Transfers a phosphate group, usually from ATP
- genome share
- Over 500 kinase genes in humans
- drug target
- Most cancer drugs block a rogue kinase
- suffix tell
- Name ends in -ase, action ends in on-off switch