BIOC 2580 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Glutamine

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The cell needs to make, store, and use energy, just as an individual needs to make, store, and use money. Without money, a person cannot acquire goods and services. Without energy, a cell cannot synthesize metabolites or carry out physiological functions. All cells rely primarily on the formation and hydrolysis of phosphorylated chemicals, especially atp. Atps role in the cell is analogous to that of money in an economy: reactions and is earned/produced . The nucleotide triphosphate atp is the cell"s most important reservoir of free energy available for immediate use. Fritz lipmann first recognized the significance of atp and other phosphorylated compounds in bioenergetics. (he also discovered the cofactor coenzyme a) Atp is a nucleotide, comprising a base (adenine), a sugar (ribose), and three phosphate groups, which we label alpha, beta, and gamma. It is at the phosphates that the energy- requiring/ releasing processes take place.

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