phosphagen
[ fos-fuh-juhn, -jen ]
nounBiochemistry.
a high-energy phosphoric ester that serves as a reservoir of phosphate-bond energy, as phosphocreatine in vertebrates and phosphoarginine in invertebrates.
Origin of phosphagen
1First recorded in 1925–30; phospha(te) + -gen
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How to use phosphagen in a sentence
The link between phosphorus and carbon is provided by oxygen in the phosphatides, by nitrogen in the phosphagens.
Thus, from phosphatides, phosphoric acid is generated, and they could also be called phosphagens.
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