adenosine triphosphate
Americannoun
noun
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One important process is ATP hydrolysis, which is how cells break down adenosine triphosphate to release energy.
From Science Daily • Dec. 16, 2025
The body stores and burns energy by perpetually making and breaking the phosphate bonds found in the cell’s little cash machines, its adenosine triphosphate molecules, better known as ATP.
From New York Times • Nov. 4, 2022
Although it’s not yet clear just what scientists will do with this 26-atom rotary motor, a larger biological analog uses rotational motion to generate adenosine triphosphate, the fuel used by cells to do work.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 5, 2022
His work has shown that these patients usually have poorly functioning mitochondria — organelles that provide energy to cells in the form of adenosine triphosphate, or ATP.
From Salon • Aug. 29, 2021
In the breakdown of glucose for energy, molecules of adenosine triphosphate, better known as ATP, are produced.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
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