ATP is the main source of energy for most cellular processes. Because of the presence of unstable, high-energy bonds in ATP, it is readily hydrolyzed in reactions to release a large amount of energy.

Its Structure. The ATP molecule is composed of three components. These phosphates are the key to the activity of ATP. ATP consists of a base, in this case adenine (red), a ribose (magenta) and a phosphate chain (blue).

ATP is a nucleotide that consists of three main structures: the nitrogenous base, adenine; the sugar, ribose; and a chain of three phosphate groups bound to ribose. The phosphate tail of ATP is the actual power source which the cell taps.

ATP has an unstable structure compared to ADP. Thus, ATP has a high phosphoryl-transfer potential (tendency to release phosphate to become ADP is high). At neutral pH, triphosphate of ATP have a great repulsion between each other. This is because, at pH 7, all the phosphate of ATP carries a negative charge.

The results showed that GTP:GDP ratio changed independently of the ATP:ADP ratio, and maybe that this the key. By having an independent supply of high energy phosphate, many cellular processes requiring energy are not tied to the ATP:ADP ratio. So, nucleotides other than ATP are used for a variety reactions.

However, ATP and GTP have very different roles in the cell, ATP is the principal energy carrier in the cell while GTP has specific roles in many signalling pathways. We have shown that Adk binds GTP, almost as strong as ATP.

ATP was the best molecule to invest energy into…instead of GTP. As far as CTP or TTP are concerned they probably hadnt evolved the earliest or had a more complex structure due to which bond breaking of the inorganic phosphates becomes difficult.

GTP is involved in energy transfer within the cell. For instance, a GTP molecule is generated by one of the enzymes in the citric acid cycle. This is tantamount to the generation of one molecule of ATP, since GTP is readily converted to ATP with nucleoside-diphosphate kinase (NDK).

GTP is energetically equivalent in almost every regard to ATP and can be freely converted between the two forms by nucleoside diphosphate kinase (NDK).

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ECONOMIC ANALYSIS GAS TO POWER (GTP)

Their activity is regulated by factors that control their ability to bind to and hydrolyze guanosine triphosphate (GTP) to guanosine diphosphate (GDP). When they are bound to GTP, they are ‘on’, and, when they are bound to GDP, they are ‘off’. G proteins belong to the larger group of enzymes called GTPases.

A GTPase activity intrinsic to the G-protein cleaves bound GTP to GDP. Thus in the “basal” state, G-proteins contain tightly bound GDP. Activated G-protein associates with effector in turn to modulate its activity. This action is transient, terminated by the intrinsic GTPase activity of the G-protein.