How to Use adenosine triphosphate in a Sentence

adenosine triphosphate

noun

• This is in the form of a chemical called adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 6 July 2021
• The basic form of energy our muscles need to function is called adenosine triphosphate, or ATP.
  — Amy Marturana, SELF, 25 Jan. 2018
• Those cells release a molecule known as ATP, for adenosine triphosphate.
  — Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 20 Oct. 2022
• Phosphocreatine is used by your body to make ATP (adenosine triphosphate), which is the main source of energy for your muscles.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2022
• More commonly, though, each turn of the wheel assembles a molecule of adenosine triphosphate, or ATP—the energy currency of our cells.
  — James Somers, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2022
• Your muscles use a molecule called adenosine triphosphate, or ATP, to power their contractions.
  — Sara Chodosh, Popular Science, 3 Jan. 2019
• To drive each contraction, cells in the muscles convert glycogen, one of the body’s primary stores of energy, into the chemical adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
  — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Sep. 2019
• To power their activities, cells need to produce the molecule adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
  — Mitch Leslie, Science | AAAS, 29 Mar. 2018
• Cells get their energy from molecules such as adenosine triphosphate (ATP), not from some sort of internal housecleaning.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 20 June 2012
• The digestive tract breaks these foods down into glucose so it can be converted into adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which is the chemical our bodies can use for energy.
  — Daniel Schultz, Ms, SELF, 16 Apr. 2018
• Yup, creatine can help energize you by boosting adenosine triphosphate (ATP) production inside the body.
  — Addison Aloian, Women's Health, 5 Sep. 2023
• And we are all battery-operated, deriving energy from a molecule called adenosine triphosphate, ATP for short.
  — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2020
• This budget-friendly creatine supplement helps to enhance the body's performance by replenishing the adenosine triphosphate (ATP) levels in the muscles.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 6 July 2023
• Right after fish is caught and killed, an energy-carrying molecule in the cells of all living things called ATP (adenosine triphosphate) is broken down and converted to inosinic acid, an umami-producing compound.
  — Akiko Katayama, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
• This reaction uses a combination of oxygen, adenosine triphosphate (ATP), and compounds called luciferins.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2021
• McElroy discovered that the gentle insect’s flash was the result of an enzymatic reaction with the compound ATP, or adenosine triphosphate, which was an essential component of the mating ritual.
  — Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 10 June 2021
• To produce energy, mitochondrial power plants in a cell use electron transport chains to convert electrons to adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the cell’s energy currency.
  — Roni Dengler, Science | AAAS, 3 May 2018
• The chemical currency of cellular metabolism, adenosine triphosphate is produced only after protons are pumped out of the cell and into its surroundings, setting up a pH gradient across the cell membrane.
  — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 21 Mar. 2018
• When taken as a supplement, cordyceps is believed to increase your body's production of adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the molecule responsible for supplying energy to your cells.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 14 June 2023
• An energy molecule called adenosine triphosphate (ATP) fuels the process by pumping protons into the vacuole to make its interior acidic—optimal for degradation.
  — Byelizabeth Pennisi, science.org, 18 Apr. 2023
• The ones from 2015 showed evidence of microbial metabolism, including molecules like adenosine triphosphate, or ATP, which is used by all cells to store energy, as well as enzymes, fatty acids and the by-products of biochemical processes.
  — The Economist, 1 Mar. 2018
• First was the levels of phosphocreatine, which allows muscles to continue contracting even when adenosine triphosphate, or ATP (a key molecule in transporting chemical energy within the cell), runs out.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 24 May 2017
• Through a few different biochemical processes, our cells convert these nutrients into a usable form of chemical energy called adenosine triphosphate, or ATP.
  — Amy Marturana, SELF, 20 Mar. 2018
• Cyanide disrupts the mitochondria’s ability to produce adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which is present in all living tissue and the primary energy source for important bodily functions like muscle contraction.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 26 Sep. 2022
• Known as the cell's powerhouse, mitochondria is responsible for cellular respiration and produces energy, known as adenosine triphosphate (ATP), from oxygen.
  — Meg Neal, Popular Mechanics, 4 Oct. 2020
• Yeast uses sugar to create adenosine triphosphate (ATP), a molecule that provides energy for many biological processes.
  — Molly Glick, Popular Science, 10 Mar. 2020
• Your muscles then convert creatine into creatine phosphate, which is then generated into adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which your body uses for explosive exercise.
  — Paul Kita, Men's Health, 13 Feb. 2023
• Additionally, the fungus increases production of ATP (adenosine triphosphate), an energy pathway that supplies about 8-10 seconds of energy for intense, shorter running bursts.
  — Mallory Arnold, Outside Online, 10 Mar. 2023
• Your muscles convert creatine into creatine phosphate, which is then generated into adenosine triphosphate (ATC), which your body uses for explosive exercise.
  — Men's Health, 9 Nov. 2022
• Mitochondria are the tiny structures inside complex (eukaryotic) cells that manufacture adenosine triphosphate, or ATP, the chemical fuel for most metabolic processes.
  — Quanta Magazine, 10 Aug. 2020

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024