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The 42 pages that link to ATP, each with the reason it gives.

• NucleotideBroader topic: ATP shows how a nucleotide can function beyond serving as a nucleic-acid building block.

• Muscle contractionRelated: Myosin requires ATP to detach from actin and reset for another cycle.

• Alcoholic fermentationRelated: Fermentation itself yields no extra ATP beyond the amount produced by glycolysis.

• GluconeogenesisRelated: Gluconeogenesis consumes ATP to drive energetically unfavorable synthesis steps.

• RiboseRelated: Its ribose links adenine to the three-phosphate chain.

• ActinRelated: Actin-bound ATP influences filament assembly and subunit turnover.

• PhosphateRelated: Its phosphate transfers drive many cellular reactions.

• Fatty acid synthesisRelated: Acetyl-CoA carboxylase spends ATP to produce malonyl-CoA.

• PhosphorylationRelated: ATP commonly donates the phosphate added during phosphorylation.

• DNA ligaseRelated: ATP supplies the adenyl group and energy used by many DNA ligases.

• Free energyRelated: ATP hydrolysis supplies a free-energy decrease that can drive cellular work.

• Metabolic pathwayRelated: ATP commonly supplies energy for pathway reactions that would otherwise be unfavorable.

• Adenosine diphosphateCompared with: ATP has one more phosphate than ADP and is the higher-energy member of this nucleotide pair.

• Cori cycleRelated: Muscle gains ATP from glycolysis, while the liver spends ATP to regenerate glucose.

• Resting membrane potentialRelated: The sodium-potassium pump consumes ATP to preserve gradients that sustain resting voltage.

• C3 carbon fixationRelated: The Calvin cycle spends ATP to reduce fixed carbon and regenerate its acceptor.

• Protein kinaseRelated: Kinases usually transfer ATP’s terminal phosphate to their protein substrates.

• ThermogenesisRelated: ATP-consuming reactions release energy, some of which becomes heat.

• AnoxiaRelated: When oxygen-dependent energy production stops, cells struggle to maintain ATP supplies.

• Cyclin-dependent kinaseRelated: CDKs use ATP as the phosphate donor in their kinase reactions.

• Protein phosphorylationRelated: Protein kinases commonly obtain the transferred phosphate from ATP.

• Sliding filament theoryRelated: ATP binding detaches myosin from actin, and its hydrolysis resets the myosin head.

• Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetaseRelated: ATP drives amino-acid activation before transfer to tRNA.

• GlycogenesisRelated: Glucose phosphorylation commits incoming glucose to intracellular metabolism.

• ShiveringRelated: Shivering muscle contractions consume ATP, with energy use contributing to heat production.

• Actin filamentRelated: Actin’s ATP hydrolysis alters filament stability and subunit interactions.

• Cytoplasmic streamingRelated: Myosin consumes ATP to produce the motion that powers streaming.

• Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphateCompared with: ATP transfers phosphoryl groups and energy, whereas NADPH primarily transfers reducing equivalents.

• Anaerobic exerciseNarrower topic: All exercise energy systems ultimately regenerate ATP for muscle contraction.

• Chemical energyRelated: Cells couple ATP-consuming reactions to processes that would otherwise be energetically unfavorable.

• BiosynthesisRelated: Many biosynthetic reactions require energy supplied by ATP.

• Guanosine diphosphateCompared with: ATP is the more common cellular energy currency, while GDP is chiefly a nucleotide substrate and switch ligand.

• Thiamine deficiencyNarrower topic: Thiamine-dependent pathways help generate ATP, making energy shortage a central consequence of deficiency.

• CatabolismRelated: Catabolic pathways often conserve released energy by producing ATP.

• Irwin RoseRelated: The discovered pathway’s dependence on ATP distinguished it from simpler protein breakdown.

• John E. WalkerNarrower topic: Walker’s discovery explains how cells synthesize this central energy carrier.

• Glycogen storage disease type VRelated: Working muscle needs ATP, but cannot obtain it normally from its glycogen stores.

• History of biochemistryRelated: Its role as an energy currency helped unify studies of metabolism across organisms.

• Mevalonic acidRelated: Mevalonate kinases consume ATP to phosphorylate the pathway intermediate.

• Thermodynamic free energyRelated: ATP hydrolysis is coupled to otherwise unfavorable cellular processes through net free-energy change.

• Otto Fritz MeyerhofRelated: Modern accounts of muscle energy place ATP at the center of processes Meyerhof studied.

• Transport (biology)Related: ATP powers primary active transport and other energy-dependent movement.