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Fast fact #58

#58: Tissues with large but variable energy demands, such as skeletal muscle, spermatozoa and the brain, store energy for instant availability as phosphocreatine. This reversibly transfers a phosphate group to adenosine diphosphate (ADP) to make adenosine triphosphate (ATP).

Bibliography

Source: The Universal Protein Resource
http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/PO6732
Originally published in Big Picture: Exercise, Energy and Movement
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/Education-resources/Teaching-and-education/Big-Picture/All-issues/Exercise-energy-and-movement/index.htm

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