Physiological concentration of Mg ion (Mg2+)

Range ~10 mM
Organism Unspecified
Reference Bioenergetics 3, Nicholls & Ferguson, Academic press 2002, p. 36 section 3.2.1 top paragraph
Comments "At pH 7.0, and in the presence of an approximately physiological 10^-2M Mg2+, this reaction [hydrolysis of ATP to ADP and Pi] has an apparent equilibrium constant K' of about 10^5M."
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