Energy stored in ATP may be released upon hydrolysis of the anhydride bonds. The bonds formed after hydrolysis — or the phosphorylation of a residue by ATP — are lower in energy than the phosphoanhydride bonds of ATP. During enzyme-catalyzed hydrolysis of ATP or phosphorylation by ATP, the available free energy can be harnessed by a living system to do work.
Any unstable system of potentially reactive molecules could potentially serve as a way of storing free energy, if the cell maintained their concentration far from the equilibrium point of the reaction.
However, as is the case with most polymeric biomolecules, the breakdown of RNA, DNA, and ATP into simpler monomers is driven by both energy-release and entropy-increase considerations, in both standard concentrations, and also those concentrations encountered within the cell.
The standard amount of energy released from hydrolysis of ATP can be calculated from the changes in energy under non-natural standard conditions, then correcting to biological concentrations. However, a more representative value which takes AMP into consideration called the Energy charge is increasingly being employed.
ATP can be produced by various cellular processes, most typically in mitochondria by oxidative phosphorylation under the catalytic influence of ATP synthase or in the case of plants in chloroplasts by photosynthesis.
The main fuels for ATP synthesis are glucose and fatty acids. Initially glucose is broken down into pyruvate in the cytosol. Two molecules of ATP are generated for each molecule of glucose. The total quantity of ATP in the human body is about 0. The energy used daily by an adult calls for the hydrolysis of to moles of ATP. This means that each ATP molecule has to be recycled to times during the day. ATP cannot be stored and so its synthesis has to closely follow its consumption.
You starve the fire of oxygen, and the flame flickers out. If a metabolic reaction is aerobic, it requires oxygen. Buy why? Here's an analogy. Think about lighting a campfire. What do you need? You need fuel the wood , you need heat it's harder to light a fire when it's cold , and you need oxygen because another word for burning is " oxidizing " and, as you might guess, it can only occur in the presence of oxygen.
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