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phosphorus

Highly reactive, non-metallic element, atomic number 15, relative atomic mass 30.9738. It occurs in nature as phosphates (commonly in the form of the mineral apatite), and is essential to all life, because phosphate groups are an essential part of DNA. Compounds of phosphorus are used in fertilizers, various organic chemicals, for matches and fireworks, and in glass and steel.

Phosphorus was first identified in 1674 by German alchemist Hennig Brand (born c. 1630), who prepared it from urine. The element has three allotropic forms (see allotropy): a black powder; a white-yellow, waxy solid that ignites spontaneously in air to form the poisonous gas phosphorus pentoxide; and a red-brown powder that neither ignites spontaneously nor is poisonous.
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DNA glycosylases/AP lyases initiate repair of oxidized bases in the genomes of all organisms by excising these lesions and then cleaving the DNA strand at the resulting abasic (AP) sites and generate 3' phospho alpha,beta-unsaturated aldehyde (3' PUA) or 3' phosphate (3' P) terminus.
NEIL2-Initiated, APE-Independent Repair of Oxidized Bases in DNA ... by Feridoun Karimi-Busheri / Biological sciences community
Stereochemical course of the phospho group transfer catalyzed by cAMP-dependent protein kinase.
Single-subunit allostery in the kinetics of peptide phosphorylation ... by Kuznetsov, Aleksei; Jarv, Jaak / Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences
The phospho is salty and the strong OJ disguises the taste pretty well.
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