Question

What type of biomolecule is ATP?

Answer 1

ATP - Adenosine Triphosphate:

1. ATP is the abbreviation used for the energy-rich compound Adenosine Triphosphate.
2. ATP is known as the energy currency of a cell.
3. Biological cells use different substrates in different pathways to generate ATP as the fate.
4. ATP consists of a ribose sugar with a purine called Adenine attached to its 1' position and three phosphate groups attached to the 6' position by a phosphodiester bond.
5. ATP is a nucleic acid by nature.
6. ATP contains two phosphoanhydride bonds that can be cleaved into ADP(Adenosine diphosphate) with one Pi (inorganic phosphate) and AMP (Adenosine monophosphate) with two Pi, in the presence of enzyme ATP hydrolase.
7. The reaction catalyzed by enzyme hydrolase is called hydrolysis reaction which leads to the decomposition of ATP into ADP and Pi with the release of energy, thus called an exothermic reaction.

Structure of ATP: