Adenosine triphosphate properties

Mechanical Work. All cells exhibit motile and contractile properties. The remarkable thing about these activities of cells is that they are based on the direct coupling of chemical to mechanical action, in contrast to the heat engines that we have developed to perform our work for us. The mechanisms by which this coupling of chemical to mechanical processes takes place is not well understood, but the hydrolysis of adenosine triphosphate is known to be an important part of the molecular pathway. Although thermodynamic studies cannot provide information about the molecular steps involved, any mechanism that is proposed must be consistent with thermodynamic data [4]. 

Simonarson, B. Watts, D.C. Purification and properties of adenosine triphosphate-creatine phosphotransferase from muscle of the dogfish Scyl-liorhinus canicula. Biochem. J., 128, 1241-1253 (1972)... 

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Kuby, S.A. Hamada, M. Gerber, D. Tsai, W.-C. Jacobs, H.K. Cress, M.C. Chua, G.K. Fleming, G. Wu, L.H. Fischer, A.H. Frischat, A. Maland, L. Studies on adenosine triphosphate transphosphorylases. Isolation and several properties of the crystalline calf ATP-AMP transphosphorylases (adenylate kinases) from muscle and liver and some observations on the rabbit muscle adenylate kinase. Arch. Biochem. Biophys., 187, 34-52 (1978)... 

Riboflavin (vitamin B2) 6,7-dimethyl-9-(D-l-ribityl)isoalloxazine (63), was discovered as a coloring matter in milk in 1879, but its importance was not then realized. Deficiency causes lesions of the eye and of the angle of the mouth. Riboflavin is phosphorylated by adenosine triphosphate (ATP) to give riboflavin 5 -phosphate (flavinadenine mononucleotide, FMN) and then flavinadenine dinucleotide (FAD) (64 R = riboflavin). These function as prosthetic groups in a number of flavoproteins which are dehydrogenation catalysts by virtue of the oxidation-reduction properties of the isoalloxazine system. 

Third, the quantitative differences in concentration of the four enzymes vary appreciably therefore making several venoms an undesirable source of exonuclease (5). All partially purified preparations of venom exonuclease exhibit adenosine triphosphate-pyrophosphatase activity (cleavage of the a-/3 linkage). Pfleiderer and Ortanderl (14a) studied this issue and showed that during purification the ratio of the two activities remains constant, concluding that both activities are intrinsic properties of the same enzyme. 

Chapters 3-5 have described the calculation of various transformed thermodynamic properties of biochemical reactants and reactions from standard thermodynamic properties of species, but they have not discussed how these species properties were determined. Of course, some species properties came directly out of the National Bureau of Standard Tables (1) and CODATA Tables (2). One way to calculate standard thermodynamic properties of species not in the tables of chemical thermodynamic properties is to express the apparent equilibrium constant K in terms of the equilibrium constant K of a reference chemical reaction, that is a reference reaction written in terms of species, and binding polynomials of reactants, as described in Chapter 2. In order to do this the piiTs of the reactants in the pH range of interest must be known, and if metal ions are bound, the dissociation constants of the metal ion complexes must also be known. For the hydrolysis of adenosine triphosphate to adenosine diphosphate, the apparent equilibrium constant is given by... 

Each chapter should be opened in a fresh workspace. When this package is loaded, all the species data on 199 reactants and the 774 functions under this package will be available for calculations. The properties for adenosine triphosphate are named atpsp, atp, atpNH, atpGT, atpHT, atpST, and atpNHT. These functions are all protected that is, none of them can be changed without unprotecting them. 

Diuretic drug preparations have promoted urine formation. They are derivatives of mercury propanol RCH2CH(OH)CH2HgX, where R is a polar hydrophilic group. The mercury diuretic preparations act as ferment inhibitors (latter containing-. They also inhibit adenosine triphosphate (ATP). These properties led to the use of mercury drug compounds in the treatment of bacterial infections. In these cases, they interacted with -SH groups of the bacteria proteins. 

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