Electric Forces and ATP Synthesis

Overview

Journal Rev Physiol Biochem Pharmacol

Date 2025 Jan 21

PMID 39838021

Authors

Colin D McCaig

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Abstract

ATP synthase is a rotary motor enzyme that drives the formation of ATP from ADP and P and uses multiple electrical forces to do this. This chapter outlines the exquisite use of these electrical forces to generate the high energy phosphates on which all our lives depend. Vacuolar ATPases and the ADP/ATP carrier also are explored.

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