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What is the difference between a phosphoryl group and a phosphate group?
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Michelle Bryant
What is the difference between a phosphoryl group and a phosphate group?
I am looking at covalent modification of enzymes and I found out that only one of these types is phosphorylation. But I do not understand what the difference between the a phosphate and a phosphoryl group is in terms of nomenclature.