Pereira, ManuelaTeixeira, MiguelCalisto, Filipa Alexandra Gomes2020-05-032022-07-312019-07-222019-07http://hdl.handle.net/10362/97139"Life depends on a constant energy supply and conversion. Cells use energy from external sources, such as organic or inorganic compounds or light to sustain, grow and reproduce themselves. The energy from those sources has to be converted into energy forms useable for the different cellular processes, i.e., external energy is converted (transduced) to other forms such as adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and/or a transmembrane difference of the electrochemical potential.(...)"engAdenosine triphosphateEnergydoctoral thesis