Where is atp produced?
Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is the energy currency of all living organisms. The ATP is found in the cells of all living organisms as an energy-carrying molecule.
The ATP is formed by the various metabolic processes occurring in the body, such as glycolysis, Krebs cycle, etc., however, the main mechanism by which the ATP is synthesized in the cell is Oxidative phosphorylation, where the electrons generated by NADH or FADH2 are travel by series of electron carriers in the electron transport chain (ETC), the proton gradient formed by the ETC is use to synthesize the ATP, where the enzyme ATP synthase converts ADP and phosphate into the ATP.
The oxidative phosphorylation takes place in the inner mitochondrial membrane. The molecules such NADH and FADH2 synthesized in the Krebs cycle acts as an electron donor in the Electron transport chain. Oxygen is the final electron acceptor in the electron transport chain.
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