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ATP ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE - Coggle Diagram
ATP
ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE
It's role in metabolism
All metabolic processes that occur on the cellular level are powered by ATP.
Metabolism its a cycle where the body gains ATP, use it, and then gains it again restoring it.
what is ATP?
Its the energy coinage of all life on our planet. Its like a recharged battery, with certain amount of potential energy.
In order to recover the energy lost, in life we're going to tap som energy by
respiration
(breaking down glucose) or by
photosynthesis
(taking energy from the sun), producing a
dehydration reactio
n.
ATP would look like salt, and if water is added, it would all hydrolyze, breaking down into
ADP
(2 phosphates) releasing energy. The
Pi
would stand for the phosphate group that's been given off.
how and where it's
produced and released
in animals
ATP it's produced by cellular respiration
,
on the inside of mitochondria
which builds up a gradient of protons on the outside of the protein ATP synthase and as they flow in, we make ATP.
As we are converting ADP and a phosphate back into ATP, they're disappearing.
Diffusion is going to move ATP
from an area of high concentration to low, moving
wherever it's used.
in plants
ATP is produced in the thylakoid membrane, on the inside of the chloroplast by light energy
. The H+ are going to be on the inside of the thylakoid membrane and as they flow out they produce ATP.
In the Calvin Cycle ATP its used to make sugars, and with mitochondria, they can break down that sugar to make ATP.
Once a phosphate is released, it can be used:
:check: in active transport to pump sodium out and potassium in.
:check: for our muscles to move using ATP.
:check: in the formation of polymers, and also RNA
ATP has been around from the begining of time used by LUCA
LUCA stands for
Last Universal Common Ancestor
, the ancestor of all cells on our planet.
LUCA properties according to (old) scientist
They used
ATP
, they had
RNA
and
DNA
, they had ability to use
glucose
, they used
proteins
,
ribosomes, membranes
and
ion channels
.
Scientists came up with this because those thing are
found in all cells on our planet
, not only us but also in prokaryotic cells and archaea.
ATP is prevalent in these other molecules.
ATP is in the structure of both
RNA
& DNA (AMP);
glucose
is gonna be break down in the mitochondria making ATP; ATP is binding amino acids on to the tRNA to build
ribosome
; and all cells are also going to have
proteins, membranes
and use
ion channels
(like the sodium potassium pump which use ATP).
