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Turning the ATP motor

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A long-standing question regarding ATP synthase — a cellular energy-generator — has been which direction it spins in when generating ATP. Some elegant experiments have revealed the answer.

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Figure 1: The binding-change model for F0F1 ATP synthase.

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Cross, R. Turning the ATP motor. Nature 427, 407–408 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/427407b

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