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ATP requirement to convert nitrate to amino acids

Range	~5 ATP/amino acid
Organism	Plants
Reference	Piques et al., Ribosome and transcript copy numbers, polysome occupancy and enzyme dynamics in Arabidopsis. Mol Syst Biol. 2009 5: 314 p.2 left column 2nd paragraphPubMed ID19888209
Primary Source	Penning de Vries FWT (1975) The cost of maintenance processes in plant cells. Ann Bot 39: 77–92 AND Hachiya T, Terashima I, Noguchi K. Increase in respiratory cost at high growth temperature is attributed to high protein turnover cost in Petunia x hybrida petals. Plant Cell Environ. 2007 Oct30(10):1269-83.PubMed ID17727417
Entered by	Uri M
ID	107717