Do how Does ATP drive cellular work?

Question

Describe in words using all the three examples of amino acid synthesis, transprort and mechanical work

Please help! I really don't know!

Thank you!!

Answer 1

Kelly... this sounds like you need help with your homework question.

ATP is a molecule that stores energy in the phosphate bond... When it is hydrolyzed forming ADP and inorganic phosphate it releases about 7 kilocalories of energy per mole.

There are many cellular reactions where ATP is used as a source of energy to drive the reaction forward.

During amino acid synthesis of Glutamine from Glutamate, ATP is required as an energy source.  Other transamination reactions where an amino group is transferred from one amino acid to another, are also driven by ATP as an energy source.

In the mechanical work of skeletal muscle, ATP drives the movement of the myosin molecule on actin filaments.  The rotating crossbridge model for actin myosin motility is dependent on the hydrolysis of ATP.

During the transport of cellular vesicles by "small myosins" and other transport motor molecules such as kinesin, ATP also plays a role in fueling the motor driven translocation and reorganization of the cell cytoskeleton.

These are just a few examples of ATP driven cellular processess

Answer 2

i would have to explain it in words

what other way could I explain it

Answer 3

Doesn't it retract muscles?