You are a scientist and you want to set up a protein phosphorylation reaction using PKA. You purchased PKA from a biotech company, and the datasheet tells you that PKA requires ATP, cAMP and Mg2+. What could be the role of these reaction mixture ingredients?

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You are a scientist and you want to set up a protein phosphorylation reaction using PKA. You purchased PKA from a biotech company, and the datasheet tells you that PKA requires ATP, cAMP and Mg<sup>2+</sup>. What could be the role of these reaction mixture ingredients?






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