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Gear Shifting in Biological Energy Transduction
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  • Release Date: 2023-09-08
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  • gear shifting
  • thermodynamics
  • non-equilibrium thermodynamics
  • phenomenological stoichiometry
  • cell growth
  • ATP synthesis
Video Introduction

This video is adapted from 10.3390/e25070993

Confronted with thermodynamically adverse output processes, free-energy transducers may shift to lower gears, thereby reducing output per unit input. This option is well known for inanimate machines such as automobiles, but unappreciated in biology.

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