Chemical energy in cells

All food contains chemicals. These chemicals are the source of energy. The energy can be released in several ways. The chemical bonds in ATP (adenosine triphosphate) are termed high-energy bonds and the processes of oxidation and reduction are involved in making and breaking these. 

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GABA are widely used transmitters. Also ATP, the molecule usually associated with chemical energy in cells, and nitric oxide act as transmitters. Several small neuropeptides, short sequences of amino acids, act as transmitters. 

ATP is the central carrier of chemical energy in cells. The presence of an adenosine moiety in a variety of enzyme cofactors may be related to binding-energy requirements. 

In the oxidation of organic nutrients in the cell, on an average about 6 mol of ATP is synthesized for each mole of oxygen consumed. Therefore, the mean efficiency of conversion of the chemical energy in the oxidation of organic substances (470 kJ/mol) to the energy of ATP molecules is about 40%. 

Compounds of one acid with another are referred to as acid anhydrides. A particularly large amount of energy is required for the formation of an acid—anhydride bond. Phosphoric anhydride bonds therefore play a central role in the storage and release of chemical energy in the cell (see p. 122). Mixed anhydrides between carboxylic acids and phosphoric acid are also very important energy-rich metabolites in cellular metabolism. 

The cell stores chemical energy in the form of energy-rich metabolites. The most important metabolite of this type is adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which drives a large number of energy-dependent reactions via energetic coupling (see p. 16). 

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FIGURE 3 Energy relationships between catabolic and anabolic pathways Catabolic pathways deliver chemical energy in the form of ATP, NADH, NADPH, and FADH2. These energy carriers are used in anabolic pathways to convert small precursor moleculesinto cell macromolecules. 

Electrochemistry is the area of chemistry concerned with the interconversion of chemical and electrical energy. Chemical energy is converted to electrical energy in a galvanic cell, a device in which a spontaneous redox reaction is used to produce an electric current. Electrical energy is converted to chemical energy in an electrolytic cell, a cell in which an electric current drives a nonspontaneous reaction. It s convenient to separate cell reactions into half-reactions because oxidation and reduction occur at separate electrodes. The electrode at which oxidation occurs is called the anode, and the electrode at which reduction occurs is called the cathode. 

The author thinks that, possibly, a general layout of mitochondrial processes— accumulators of the chemical energy in the cell —may be composed. It will unite statements of both hypotheses and describe various consecutive events of mitochondrion operation. 

In cells, the energy needed to make ATP comes from glucose, glycogen, fatty acids, etc. When an ATP molecule is produced, it contains chemical energy in a form and quantity that can be used by the cell. So, when a cell needs energy, it can get it from the breakdown of stored ATP. 

ATP Adenosine triphosphate, a high-energy molecule used to fuel chemical reactions in cells. 

Overpotential causes waste heat to be developed when a fuel cell makes electricity at a significant rate. Why let this heat be dissipated into the atmosphere Let us duct it to rooms in a building and raise the overall efficiency of conversion of the chemical energy in the fuel (i.e., heat and electricity) to 85% ... 

However, standard conditions in biochemistry and in biology are different, since chemical reactions in cells occur at around pH 7. Therefore, standard conditions in biochemistry differ from those in chemistry, which implies that the standard Gibbs free energy within a biological system is denoted as A G0/. Standard conditions in biochemistry and biology are a pH equal to 7 and a constant water concentration that does not appear in the mathematical definition of the equilibrium constant. 

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