enzymatic activity phenotype phosphatase activity phenotype 2016-02-11T13:29:38Z An enzymatic activity phenotype that relates to the presence or absence of phosphatase, an enzyme that acts to modulate protein activity in cells. Phosphatase acts by removing phosphate groups off of active proteins making them enzymatically inactive. Jesus OMP:0005160 This is a high-level term whose primary purpose is to organize terms beneath it in the ontology, and we expect that it will not be used for direct annotations. Please consider using a more specific term to annotate each phenotype. microbial_phenotype