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Doing a rotary two-step

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By spinning around, the ATP synthase converts energy from electrochemical to chemical form for storage. A cunning assay reveals intricate details of the rotation.

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Figure 1: ATP synthase — energy converter.
Figure 2: Molecular machines that use ATP binding at one catalytic site to trigger a large conformational change and the release of ADP from another catalytic site.

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