Kinases
Doctor Thomas Nuhse explains that kinases are enzymes that are specialized for attaching a phosphate group to another protein.
A kinase is again one subgroup of enzymes. Kinases are enzymes that are specialized in attaching a phosphate group to another protein very basically. Some kinases also add a phosphate to a lipid, but mostly kinases add a phosphate group to another protein typically to transfer a signal, and then they make that other protein do something it didn’t do before - activate it, or make it work together with proteins that it didn’t work together with before, maybe make it less stable, change its lifetime, or also make it go to a different place in the cell. Basically kinases are the proteins that attach phosphate to other proteins.
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