Word: atp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ATP is the major source of chemical energy for living organisms and differs in only one atom of phosphorous from a building block of the genetic code-carrier...
Laboratory synthesis of ATP, adenosine triphosphate, marking a major break-through in the investigation of the origin of life, was announced Sunday by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. The experimental results have just been published in the British journal Nature by Carl Sagan, assistant professor of Astronomy and a member of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, and by Dr. Cyril Ponnamperuma and Miss Ruth Mariner of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration...
...achievement that earned Lord Trumpington the Nobel Prize in 1957 was his work on organic phosphates, and in particular his synthesis of ATP...
During his Fall Term sabbatical at the University of Amsterdam, Pappenheimer plans to study the broad topic of oxidative phosphorylation. Of particular interest to him is ATP, the major energy-storing compound of the living cell. ATP is involved in the cytochrome oxidizing processes mentioned above. Thus, Pappenheimer's work at Amsterdam will probably yield additional information concerning his old friend, diphtheria toxin...
...market was a Schwartz offering of dehydrated firefly tails at $5 per gram as a sensitive test for ATP-adenosine tri-phosphate-a vital chemical that is found in nearly all living cells. When ATP is added to an extract of firefly tails, the solution lights up, and the amount of light given off is proportionate to the amount of ATP. By measuring the light, the ATP can itself be measured...