Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An enzyme that catalyzes the formation of ATP from ADP, inorganic phosphate, and energy, found in mitochondria and chloroplasts; adenosine triphosphatase.
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- noun biochemistry A type of
enzyme which works to convertadenosine triphosphate (ATP ) intoadenosine diphosphate (ADP ) and a freephosphate ion, thereby releasingenergy to be used in cellular activity.
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Examples
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Regardless, I can tell there are a few issues – they cite the 2003 critiques of the flagellum evolution model by the pseudonymous “Mike Gene”, without noting that several later scientific developments caused Mike Gene to substantially improve his opinion about even the most radical part of Matzke 2003, which was the idea that a good chunk of the flagellum was homologous to the F1Fo-ATPase and relatives.
Flagellum evolution -- how's your German? - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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Go watch the one titled F1-F0 ATPase; it's a beautiful example of a highly efficient molecular motor, and it's the kind of thing the creationists go ga-ga over.
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Function however can be very, I would even say often is, specific, for example, the epsilon subunit inhibits ATPase activity if F1 is not attached to Fo.
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Namba 2008 Distinct roles of the FliI ATPase and proton motive force in bacterial flagellar protein export.
Flagellum evolution -- how's your German? - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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Paul et al. (2008) constructed a five-knockout mutant, which three ATPase / secretory fliHIJ lack of the flagellum, but it also contained two ATPase-related protein type 3 secretion systems (INVC and Sansandi).
Flagellum evolution -- how's your German? - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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Regardless, I can tell there are a few issues – they cite the 2003 critiques of the flagellum evolution model by the pseudonymous “Mike Gene”, without noting that several later scientific developments caused Mike Gene to substantially improve his opinion about even the most radical part of Matzke 2003, which was the idea that a good chunk of the flagellum was homologous to the F1Fo-ATPase and relatives.
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Neuronal hypoxia and acidosis would disable sodium-potassium ATPase pumps, preventing axonal action potentials, but temporarily sparing lower energy dendritic activity which may correlate more directly with consciousness (10), Another possibility is that consciousness is a low energy quantum process (11), in which case reduced molecular dynamics may limit thermal decoherence, providing a temporal window for enhanced quantum coherent states and a burst of enhanced consciousness.
Deepak Chopra: End-of-Life Brain Activity - A Sign of the Soul? 2010
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Neuronal hypoxia and acidosis would disable sodium-potassium ATPase pumps, preventing axonal action potentials, but temporarily sparing lower energy dendritic activity which may correlate more directly with consciousness (10), Another possibility is that consciousness is a low energy quantum process (11), in which case reduced molecular dynamics may limit thermal decoherence, providing a temporal window for enhanced quantum coherent states and a burst of enhanced consciousness.
Deepak Chopra: End-of-Life Brain Activity - A Sign of the Soul? 2010
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Go watch the one titled F1-F0 ATPase; it's a beautiful example of a highly efficient molecular motor, and it's the kind of thing the creationists go ga-ga over.
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Regardless, I can tell there are a few issues – they cite the 2003 critiques of the flagellum evolution model by the pseudonymous “Mike Gene”, without noting that several later scientific developments caused Mike Gene to substantially improve his opinion about even the most radical part of Matzke 2003, which was the idea that a good chunk of the flagellum was homologous to the F1Fo-ATPase and relatives.
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