Cellular Energy Journey

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Membrane thickness, protein sizes and motion are adapted for illustration, not microscopy or atomic reconstruction. The oxygen switch affects the oxidative phosphorylation shown here; kinesin uses a separately illustrated ATP pool.

Coy et al. · Kinesin takes one 8-nm step for each ATP that it hydrolyzes · OpenStax Biology 2e · 4.3 Eukaryotic Cells · OpenStax Biology 2e · 7.4 Oxidative Phosphorylation