Rate of ATP Breakdown in Flight Muscle ATP production in the flight muscle of the fly...

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Rate of ATP Breakdown in Flight Muscle ATP production in the flight muscle of the fly Lucilia sericata results almost exclusively from oxidative phosphorylation. During flight, 187 mL of O/hr.g of body weight is needed to maintain an ATP concentration of 7.0 mol/g of flight muscle. Assuming that flight muscle makes up 20% of the weight of the fly, calculate the rate at which the flight-muscle ATP pool turns over. How long would the reservoir of ATP last in the absence of oxidative phosphory- lation? Assume that reducing equivalents are transferred by the glycerol 3-phosphate shuttle and that O is at 25 C and 101.3 kPa (1 atm). Rate of ATP Breakdown in Flight Muscle ATP production in the flight muscle of the fly Lucilia sericata results almost exclusively from oxidative phosphorylation. During flight, 187 mL of O/hr.g of body weight is needed to maintain an ATP concentration of 7.0 mol/g of flight muscle. Assuming that flight muscle makes up 20% of the weight of the fly, calculate the rate at which the flight-muscle ATP pool turns over. How long would the reservoir of ATP last in the absence of oxidative phosphory- lation? Assume that reducing equivalents are transferred by the glycerol 3-phosphate shuttle and that O is at 25 C and 101.3 kPa (1 atm).

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