In an article published in the journal Trends in Biochemical Sciences, Alicia Kowaltowski, full professor at the University ...

A fourth category of eukaryotes possesses small, inconspicuous mitochondria that are not involved in ATP synthesis at all. These eukaryotes synthesize their ATP in the cytosol with the help of ...

A paper by scientists affiliated with the University of São Paulo highlights new discoveries regarding the mechanisms of oxidative phosphorylation involved in ATP production. Recent studies have ...

system within the inner mitochondrial membrane, the site of ATP synthesis. The reoxidation of reducing equivalents, NADH (reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide) and FADH 2 (reduced flavin ...

The enzyme which makes ATP is called ATP synthase, or ATPase, and sits on the mitochondria in animal cells or chloroplasts ... the energy requiring step in making ATP is not the synthesis from ADP and ...

Mitochondria organelles came from primordial bacterial endosymbionts and still preserve distinct genes for important functions like making ATP. To speed the emerging therapeutic research into the ...

In an article published in the journal Trends in Biochemical Sciences, Alicia Kowaltowski , full professor at the University of São Paulo's ...

In particular, mitochondrial Ca 2+ plays a dual role: enabling physiological functions like metabolism and ATP synthesis while contributing to pathological processes such as apoptosis and ...

Instead, the pump used light to fuel the movement of protons across the inner membrane, driving the synthesis of ATP. The team named this tool mitochondria-ON (mtON), which only works if the ...

In particular, mitochondrial Ca 2+ plays a dual role: enabling physiological functions like metabolism and ATP synthesis while contributing to pathological processes such as apoptosis and ...