Biochemistry Adenosine triphosphate

Lymn, R.W. Taylor, E.W. Mechanism of adenosine triphosphate hydrolysis of actomyosin. Biochemistry 10 4617-4624, 1971. 

Sometimes, particularly in biochemistry, reactive substances that undergo highly exothermic reactions, such as ATP adenosine triphosphate), are referred... 

Eisenberg, E. Moos, C. (1968). Adenosine triphosphate activity of acto-heavy meromyosin A kinetic analysis of actin activation. Biochemistry 7, 1486-1489. 

Beyer, K., and Nuscher, B., 1996, Specific cardiolipin binding interferes with labeling of sulfhydryl residues in the adenosine diphosphate/adenosine triphosphate carrier protein from beef heart mitochondria, Biochemistry 35 15784-15790. 

Nucleosides are also encountered in the structures of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and coenzyme A (HSCoA). ATP provides nature with its currency unit for energy. Hydrolysis of ATP to adenosine diphosphate (ADP) liberates energy, which can be coupled to energy-requiring processes in biochemistry, and synthesis of ATP from ADP can be coupled to energy-releasing processes (see Box 7.25). 

Perhaps one of the most important reactions of biochemistry is the cleavage of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) itno adenosine diphosphate (ADP). This... 

Chan, J.M., Wu, W., Dean, D.R., and Seefeldt, L.C. (2000) Construction and Characterization of a heterodimeric iron protein defining rolee for adenosin triphosphate in nitrogenase catalysis, Biochemistry 39, 7221-7228. 

At the time I was in graduate school, it was recognized that living cells capture energy from oxidation of foodstuffs by making adenosine triphosphate (ATP) from adenosine diphosphate (ADP) and inorganic phosphate. The ATP is then used in a myriad of functions — muscle contraction, nerve, brain, and kidney function, metabolic syntheses, and solute transport. How this oxidative phosphorylation occurrs remained for many years a major unsolved problem in biochemistry. 

Boyer, Paul D. (1918- ). A chemist who won the Nobel Prize in 1997 for his work on elucidating the enzymatic mechanism by which ATP synthase (ATPase) catalyzes the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the energy source of living cells. He is a professor of biochemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received a Ph.D. in Biochemistry in 1943 from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, U.S.A. 

The complicated solubility relations, rates of hydrolysis, sclf-disproportionation and intcrcon-version with other phosphates depends sensitively on pH, conccniralion, temperature and the presence of impurities." Though of great interest academically and of paramount importance industrially thc.sc aspects will not he further considered here. " " Triphosphates such as adenosine triphosphate (ATP) arc also of vital importance in living organisms (.sec text books on biochemistry, and also ref. 141). 

The most remarkable advances in twentieth century biology and biochemistry were connected with compounds containing both phosphorus and carbon. The universal energy transfer compound, adenosine triphosphate (ATP), first discovered by Fiske and Subarrow in muscle in 1929, was synthesised some 20 years later by Todd and his co-workers. 

The 3, 5 -cyclic monophosphate of adenosine (cAMP) (2.148) is an important secondary messenger for intercellular communication in biochemistry. When the cell is stimulated by the first messenger, compound 2.148 is formed from adenosine triphosphate (ATP) (Scheme 2.25). This reaction is catalysed by an adenosine cyclase enzyme. The cAMP then goes on to activate other intracellular enzymes, so producing a cell response. The response is terminated by the hydrolysis of cAMP by phosphodiesterase (a phosphate-ester-hydrolysis enzyme). The action of adenylate cyclase has been mimicked successfully with a p-cyclodextrin complex of Pr(iii) and other lanthanide(iii) metals, under physiological conditions. The... 

EILAND F. 1979. An improved method for determination of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) in soil. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 11, 31-35. 

GREAVES M.P., WHEATLEY R.E., SHEPHERD H. and KNIGHT A.H. 1973. Relationship between microbial populations and adenosine triphosphate in a basin peat. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 5, 685-687. 

JENKINSON D.S. and OADES J.M. 1979. A method for measuring adenosine triphosphate in soil. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 1 1, 193-199. 

OADES J.M. and JENKINSON D.S. 1979. The adenosine triphosphate content of the soil microbial biomass. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 11, 201-204. 

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