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n. - Any of a large group of nitrogenous organic compounds that are essential constituents of living cells containing chemically bound an acid used in fertilizers and soaps: H3PO4

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  • Preclinical studies also suggest that Vimpat® binds to the collapsin response mediator protein-2 (CRMP-2), a phosphoprotein which is mainly expressed in the nervous...
  • However, what you ask in your ROC plot is not whether each phosphorylation site is correct but whether the protein is a phosphoprotein.
  • In order to properly control for this observation I calculated the correlation observed in figure 1 randomizing the phosphorylation sites within each phosphoprotein.
  • To compare I also randomized the phosphorylation sites keeping the total number of phosphorylation sites fixed but not restricting the number of phosphorylation sites within...
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