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ATP
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A nucleotide derived from adenosine that occurs in muscle tissue; the major source of energy for cellular reactions
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Hypernyms ("ATP" is a kind of...):
base; nucleotide (a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA))
Context examples:
This allele, which encodes multidrug resistance-associated protein 4, is involved in ATP hydrolysis, anion transport and platelet activation.
(ABCC4 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
The team showed that these astrocytes used adenosine triphosphate (ATP) to communicate with other cells in the brain.
(Star-like cells may help the brain tune breathing rhythms, National Institutes of Health)
The researchers found that borrelidin simultaneously occupies the enzyme binding sites for the amino acid L-threonine, molecule tRNA, and energy molecule ATP.
(Scientists Discover Antibiotic Mechanism, NIH)
The drug combination essentially shuts down tumor cell ATP production.
(Scientists find promising drug combination against lethal childhood brain cancers, National Institutes of Health)
MLH1 is homologous to MutL, which hydrolyzes ATP.
(MLH1 Protein, NCI Thesaurus)
Cold exposure revealed distinct differences in the reaction of mitochondria, organelles that provide energy to the cell in the form of adenosine, triphosphate (ATP).
(Researchers develop “hibernation in a dish” to study how animals adapt to the cold, National Institutes of Health)
The oxidation of fatty acids is an important source of energy for ATP production in mitochondria through the entry of acetyl-CoA into the Krebs cycle.
(Mitochondrial Carnitine Palmitoyltransferase Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
This gene is involved in both ATP binding and catabolism.
(ABCA5 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
Mitochondria are the sites of the reactions of oxidative phosphorylation, which result in the formation of ATP.
(Mitochondrion, NCI Thesaurus)
ABC transporters consist of two integral membrane proteins (permeases) each having six transmembrane segments, two peripheral membrane proteins that bind and hydrolyze ATP, and a periplasmic (or lipoprotein) substrate-binding protein.
(ABC Transporter, NCI Thesaurus)
