Mechanism
Phosphorylation involves the transfer of phosphate groups from ATP to the enzyme, the energy for which comes from hydrolysing ATP into ADP or AMP.
However, dephosphorylation releases phosphates into solution as free ions, because attaching them back to ATP would require energy input.
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