Bioenergetics

This article is about the biological study of energy transformation. For the Reichian body-oriented psychotherapy sometimes known as bioenergetics, see bioenergetic analysis.
For the metabolic processes of ATP synthesis and utilization in the body, see Bioenergetic systems

Bioenergetics is a field in biochemistry and cell biology that concerns energy flow through living systems.[1] This is an active area of biological research that includes the study of the transformation of energy in living organisms and the study of thousands of different cellular processes such as cellular respiration and the many other metabolic and enzymatic processes that lead to production and utilization of energy in forms such as adenosine triphosphate (ATP) molecules.[2][3] That is, the goal of bioenergetics is to describe how living organisms acquire and transform energy in order to perform biological work.[4] The study of metabolic pathways is thus essential to bioenergetics.

  1. ^ Nelson, David L., Cox, Michael M. Lehninger: Principles of Biochemistry. New York: W.H. Freeman and Company, 2013. Sixth ed., pg 24.
  2. ^ Green, D. E.; Zande, H. D. (1981). "Universal energy principle of biological systems and the unity of bioenergetics". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 78 (9): 5344–5347. Bibcode:1981PNAS...78.5344G. doi:10.1073/pnas.78.9.5344. PMC 348741. PMID 6946475.
  3. ^ Nelson, David L., Cox, Michael M. Lehninger: Principles of Biochemistry. New York: W.H. Freeman and Company, 2013. Sixth ed., pg. 27.
  4. ^ Nelson, David L., Cox, Michael M. Lehninger: Principles of Biochemistry. New York: W.H. Freeman and Company, 2013. Sixth ed., pg. 24.