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Adenosine phosphate compounds

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Adenosine phosphate compounds are vitally important to the cell as:

  • energy stores; the energy held within ATP > ADP > AMP
  • secondary messengers e.g. cAMP

There is a great deal of interconversion between the different compounds.

ATP can be formed directly by substrate-level coupling, or indirectly via the electron transfer chain and oxidative phosphorylation.

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