ATP Synthase: A Moonlighting Enzyme with Unprecedented Functions
Biological Physics
2022-02-23 v2 Chemical Physics
Biomolecules
Abstract
ATP synthase's intrinsic molecular electrostatic potential (MESP) adds constructively to, and hence reinforces, the chemiosmotic voltage. This ATP synthase voltage represents a new free energy term that appears to have been overlooked. This term is at least roughly equal in order of magnitude and opposite in sign to the energy needed to be dissipated as a Maxwell's demon (Landauer principle).
Cite
@article{arxiv.2112.12874,
title = {ATP Synthase: A Moonlighting Enzyme with Unprecedented Functions},
author = {Jean-Nicolas Vigneau and Peyman Fahimi and Maximilian Ebert and Youji Cheng and Connor Tannahill and Paul Muir and Thanh-Tung Nguyen-Dang and Cherif F. Matta},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.12874},
year = {2022}
}
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4 pages, 3 figures, 1 table