phosphorylate

From phosphoryl +‎ -ate (verb-forming suffix), or back-formation from phosphorylation.

phosphorylate (third-person singular simple present phosphorylates, present participle phosphorylating, simple past and past participle phosphorylated)

1. (transitive) To cause phosphorylation.
   • 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 359:

     The protein made by the viral src gene was so potent and hyperactive that it phosphorylated anything and everything around it.

2. (intransitive) To undergo phosphorylation.

• phosphorate (not to be confused)