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Adenosine Phosphates

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The adenine nucleotides AMP (adenosine 5’monophosphate), ADP (adenosine 5’diphosphate), and especially ATP (adenosine 5’triphosphate) serve as energy carriers that are generated during exergonic reactions and used to drive endergonic reactions. At the substrate-level, phosphorylation, and in the electron transport, chain oxidation reactions, supply the energy for the phosphorylation of AMP and ADP to ATP. The ratios of these three adenylates are a measure of the energy status of cells. As ATP is very sensitive to environmental factors and to phosphatases, it does not persist in soils in a free state. Assuming that the ATP content of all living cells is constant under standard conditions, it can be used as a measure for the biomass content of soils (Holm-Hansen and Booth 1966; Sparling and Eiland 1983). There is no general agreement about the correlation between the amount of ATP and the microbial biomass (Ausmus 1973; Karl 1980; Sparling and Eiland 1983). The ATP content of microorganisms can be widely divergent depending on their metabolic activity (Fairbanks et al. 1984). Jenkinson (1988) pointed out that ATP contents of different soils can only be compared if such parameters as water content and temperature are standardized.

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  1. Institute of Microbiology, University of Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, A-6020, Innsbruck, Austria

    Franz Schinner  & Rosa Margesin  & 

  2. Federal Office for Agrobiology, Wieningerstraße 8, A-4025, Linz, Australia

    Richard Öhlinger

  3. Institute for Soil Management, Federal Agency and Research Centre for Agriculture, Spargelfeldstraße 191, A-1220, Vienna, Austria

    Ellen Kandeler

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Albers, B., Rackwitz, R., Raubuch, M., Zelles, L., Margesin, R., Schinner, F. (1996). Adenosine Phosphates. In: Schinner, F., Öhlinger, R., Kandeler, E., Margesin, R. (eds) Methods in Soil Biology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60966-4_16

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