X-Nico

unusual facts about Adenosine diphosphate


Ladderane

Dissipation of the proton gradient is coupled to the phosphorylation of ADP through membrane-bound ATPases.


Compounds of oxygen

Oxygen also occurs in phosphate (PO43−) groups in the biologically important energy-carrying molecules ATP and ADP, in the backbone and the purines (except adenine) and pyrimidines of RNA and DNA, and in bones as calcium phosphate and hydroxylapatite.


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