1925 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 128 i. 1477 The following salts are described : brucine hydrogen guanylate, distrychnine guanylate, dibrucine adenylate, distrychnine adenylate [etc.].

1937 Jrnl. Biol. Chem. 121 153 The white, powdery material..had the following composition, agreeing fairly well with that for barium adenylate.

1984 J. F. Lamb et al. Essent. Physiol. (ed. 2) iii. 56 (caption) A practically irreversible reaction catalysed by adenylate deaminase.

1999 W. R. Loewenstein Touchstone of Life x. 224 (caption) The cycle starts anew, and GTP is broken down to GDP and α leaves the adenylate in GTP-bound form.

1962 Jrnl. Allergy & Clin. Immunol. 69 151/1 Their modulation of adenylate cyclase may play an intricate part in the complex biochemistry of this important cell.

1983 B. Alberts et al. Molecular Biol. Cell xiii. 737 At least four different hormones activate adenylate cyclase in fat cells, and all of them stimulate the breakdown of triglyceride (the storage form of fat) to fatty acids.

1995 Trends Neurosci. 18 536/1 Following the cloning of the first adenylate cyclase in 1989..a Pandora's box of adenylate cyclases that were differently regulated and distributed was discovered.

2000 J. Mann Murder, Magic, & Med. (rev. ed.) iv. 240 Forskolin..produces these effects through activation of the enzyme adenylate cyclase, with consequent production of the intracellular second messenger cyclic AMP.

1951 S. P. Colowick in J. B. Sumner & K. Myrbäck Enzymes II. i. xlvi. 123 Kotelnikova..points out that the name ‘myokinase’ is hardly suitable for an enzyme which is so widely distributed and suggests the name ‘ADP-phosphomutase’. The author prefers the term ‘adenylate kinase’ for reasons mentioned earlier.

1988 L. Stryer Biochem. (ed. 3) xiii. 317 The enzyme adenylate kinase (also called myokinase) catalyzes the reaction: ATP + AMP ⇌ ADP + ADP.

2008 N. Draper & C. Hodgson Adventure Sport Physiol. vi. 208/2 The first reaction..is catalysed by the enzyme adenylate kinase (sometimes called myokinase or, when referring to the reaction in cells other than muscle tissue, AMP kinase).

1963 [implied in: B. Pullman & A. Pullman Quantum Biochem. ii. vii. 349 ATP may act either as a phosphorylating agent, a pyrophosphorylating agent or an adenylating agent. (at adenylating adj.)].

1970 Ann. Rep. Medicinal Chem., 1969 76 Mannosidostreptomycin..is not adenylated by a kinase capable of inactivating streptomycin.

1976 Arch. Biochem. & Biophysics 173 204/2 Some of the mRNA present in the zoospore was adenylated subsequent to germination.

2003 P. Régnier & P. E. Marujo in J. Lapointe & L. Brakier-Gingras Transl. Mechanisms xi. 185 Not only are stable, regulatory and messenger RNAs polyadenylated but most of them can be adenylated at many different sites.