Energetic bond

The high-energy bond is a covalent bond , the breakage of which in the course of hydrolysis is accompanied by a change in free energy similar to that of the hydrolysis of ATP to ADP + Pi.

Although common in biochemistry, the term high-energy bond is misleading because the bond in question is not particularly energetic, stable, or unstable than other covalent bonds.

High energy connection

Chemical compound that contains at least one high-energy bond. One also speaks of a connection with high group transmission potential . The transferable group is the one that is linked to the rest of the molecule via the high-energy bond. ATP, for example, has a high potential for phosphoryl group transfer.

literature

• Jeremy M. Berg, John L. Tymoczko, Lubert Stryer : Biochemistry. 6 edition, Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg 2007. ISBN 978-3-8274-1800-5 .
• Donald Voet, Judith G. Voet: Biochemistry. 3rd edition, John Wiley & Sons, New York 2004. ISBN 0-471-19350-X .
• Bruce Alberts , Alexander Johnson, Peter Walter, Julian Lewis, Martin Raff, Keith Roberts: Molecular Biology of the Cell , 5th Edition, Taylor & Francis 2007, ISBN 978-0815341062 .