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'''Phosphoserine''' (abbreviated as '''SEP''' or '''J''') is an ester of serine and phosphoric acid. Phosphoserine is a component of many proteins as the result of posttranslational modifications.<ref>{{Cite journal|title = Global, In Vivo, and Site-Specific Phosphorylation Dynamics in Signaling Networks|journal = Cell|date = 2006-03-11|pmid = 17081983|pages = 635–648|volume = 127|issue = 3|doi = 10.1016/j.cell.2006.09.026|first1 = Jesper V.|last1 = Olsen|first2 = Blagoy|last2 = Blagoev|first3 = Florian|last3 = Gnad|first4 = Boris|last4 = Macek|first5 = Chanchal|last5 = Kumar|first6 = Peter|last6 = Mortensen|first7 = Matthias|last7 = Mann|s2cid = 7827573|doi-access = free}}</ref> The phosphorylation of the alcohol functional group in serine to produce phosphoserine is catalyzed by various types of kinases.<ref>{{Cite journal|title = The phosphorylation of proteins: a major mechanism for biological regulation|journal = Biochemical Society Transactions|date = 1985-10-01|pmid = 2998902|pages = 813–820|volume = 13|issue = 5|doi = 10.1042/bst0130813|first = Edwin G.|last = Krebs}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|title = The Protein Kinase Complement of the Human Genome|journal = Science|date = 2002-12-06|pmid = 12471243|pages = 1912–1934|volume = 298|issue = 5600|doi = 10.1126/science.1075762|first1 = G.|last1 = Manning|first2 = D. B.|last2 = Whyte|first3 = R.|last3 = Martinez|first4 = T.|last4 = Hunter|first5 = S.|last5 = Sudarsanam|bibcode = 2002Sci...298.1912M|s2cid = 26554314}}</ref> Through the use of technologies that utilize an expanded genetic code, phosphoserine can also be incorporated into proteins during translation.<ref>{{Cite journal|title = Expanding the Genetic Code of Escherichia coli with Phosphoserine|journal = Science|date = 2011-08-26|pmid = 21868676|pages = 1151–1154|volume = 333|issue = 6046|doi = 10.1126/science.1207203|first1 = Hee-Sung|last1 = Park|first2 = Michael J.|last2 = Hohn|first3 = Takuya|last3 = Umehara|first4 = Li-Tao|last4 = Guo|first5 = Edith M.|last5 = Osborne|first6 = Jack|last6 = Benner|first7 = Christopher J.|last7 = Noren|first8 = Jesse|last8 = Rinehart|first9 = Dieter|last9 = Söll|pmc = 5547737|bibcode = 2011Sci...333.1151P}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|title = Efficient genetic encoding of phosphoserine and its nonhydrolyzable analog|journal = Nature Chemical Biology|date = 2015-01-01|volume = 11|issue = 7|pages = 496–503|doi = 10.1038/nchembio.1823|pmid = 26030730|first1 = Daniel T|last1 = Rogerson|first2 = Amit|last2 = Sachdeva|first3 = Kaihang|last3 = Wang|first4 = Tamanna|last4 = Haq|first5 = Agne|last5 = Kazlauskaite|first6 = Susan M|last6 = Hancock|first7 = Nicolas|last7 = Huguenin-Dezot|first8 = Miratul M K|last8 = Muqit|first9 = Andrew M|last9 = Fry|pmc=4830402}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|title = Robust production of recombinant phosphoproteins using cell-free protein synthesis|journal = Nature Communications|date = 2015-09-09|pmc = 4566161|pmid = 26350765|volume = 6|pages = 8168|doi = 10.1038/ncomms9168|first1 = Javin P.|last1 = Oza|first2 = Hans R.|last2 = Aerni|first3 = Natasha L.|last3 = Pirman|first4 = Karl W.|last4 = Barber|first5 = Charlotte M.|last5 = ter Haar|first6 = Svetlana|last6 = Rogulina|first7 = Matthew B.|last7 = Amrofell|first8 = Farren J.|last8 = Isaacs|first9 = Jesse|last9 = Rinehart|bibcode = 2015NatCo...6.8168O}}</ref>

It is a normal metabolite found in human biofluids.<ref>{{cite journal|pmid=7693088 |title=Analysis of free and bound O-phosphoamino acids in urine by gas chromatography with flame photometric detection|journal=Biomedical Chromatography|volume=7|issue=4|pages=184–8|year=1993|last1=Kataoka|first1=H|last2=Nakai|first2=K|last3=Katagiri|first3=Y|last4=Makita|first4=M|doi=10.1002/bmc.1130070403}}</ref>

Phosphoserine has three potential coordination sites (carboxyl, amine and phosphate group) Determination of the mode of coordination between phosphorylated ligands and metal ions occurring in an organism is a first step to explain the function of the phosphoserine in bioinorganic processes.<ref>{{Cite journal|title = Coordination mode in the binary systems of copper(II)/O-phospho-L-serine|journal = Journal of Coordination Chemistry|date = 2009-03-10|pages = 710–720|volume = 62|issue = 5|doi = 10.1080/00958970802317855|first1 = Renata|last1 = Jastrzab|first2 = Lechoslaw|last2 = Lomozik|s2cid = 95207026}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|title = Phosphoserine and specific types of its coordination in copper(II) and adenosine nucleotides systems – Potentiometric and spectroscopic studies|journal = Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry|date = 2009-05-01|pages = 766–773|volume = 103|issue = 5|doi = 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2009.01.012|pmid = 19230980|first = Renata|last = Jastrzab}}</ref>

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Category:Alpha-Amino acids Category:Organophosphates