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How ATP drives cellular work.

Phosphate group transfer is the mechanism responsible for most types of cellular work. For example,

(a) ATP drives mechanical work by phosphorylating motor proteins, such as the ones that move organelles along cytoskeletal "tracks" in the cell.

ATP also (b) drives active transport by phosphorylating certain membrane proteins.

And ATP (c) drives chemical work by phosphorylating key reactants, in this case glutamic acid that is then converted to glutamine. The phosphorylated molecules lose the phosphate groups as work is performed, leaving ADP and inorganic phosphate (Pi) as products.

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