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The main principles of energy transformation in living organisms are described. The term “bioenergetics” is defined, and the position of bioenergetics in the system of biological sciences is reviewed. The main laws of bioenergetics are formulated and hypotheses on possible evolution of bioenergetic mechanisms are presented.
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Russian biophysicists have been quite successful in this area. For instance, the laboratories of the Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical biology at Moscow State University have measured kinetics of the primary processes of photosynthesis in living nature to the resolution of 2 × 10-15 s, which is the highest achieved in biological studies) (Shuvalov 2007).
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There is also another possibility—phosphate being connected to N1 of adenine and not to its amino group. For instance, natural compounds where NAD+ is connected to ribose in N1 position have been described (Lee et al. 1989).
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Skulachev, V.P., Bogachev, A.V., Kasparinsky, F.O. (2013). Introduction. In: Principles of Bioenergetics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33430-6_1
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