{"id":7225,"date":"2019-05-22T15:54:34","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/adenosine_triphosphate_-atp\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:54:34","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:54:34","slug":"adenosine_triphosphate_-atp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/adenosine_triphosphate_-atp\/","title":{"rendered":"Adenosine triphosphate (ATP)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A nucleotide molecule that is the supplier of energy for all cells. &nbsp;In animals, it is formed by the breakdown of glucose molecules, usually obtained from carbohydrate intakes in a series of reactions involving hydrolysis. &nbsp;ATPase activity in myosin is the driving force behind the contraction of muscles. &nbsp;Dephosphorylation results in a release of energy.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"actin\">Actin<\/a>, <a href=\"actomyosin\">Actomyosin<\/a>, <a href=\"creatine\">Creatine<\/a>, <a href=\"dephosphorylation\">Dephosphorylation<\/a>, <a href=\"hydrolysis\">Hydrolysis<\/a>, <a href=\"myosin\">Myosin<\/a>, <a href=\"nucleotide\">Nucleotide<\/a>, <a href=\"phosphate\">Phosphate<\/a>, Phosphorylation<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nucleotide molecule that is the supplier of energy for all cells. &nbsp;In animals, it is formed by the breakdown of glucose molecules, usually obtained from carbohydrate intakes in a series of reactions involving hydrolysis. &nbsp;ATPase activity in myosin is the driving force behind the contraction of muscles. &nbsp;Dephosphorylation results in a release of energy. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/adenosine_triphosphate_-atp\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Adenosine triphosphate (ATP)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}