NOUN
- an organic compound of creatine and phosphoric acid; found in the muscles of vertebrates where its hydrolysis releases energy for muscular contraction
How To Use creatine phosphate In A Sentence
- But the road to its discovery and understanding of its critical and almost universal role as energy provider in cellular processes began with and led through the analysis of creatine phosphate. Otto Meyerhof and the Physiology Institute: the Birth of Modern Biochemistry
- In addition to spawning Meyerhof's first doubts about the centrality of lactic acid in glycolysis, the discovery encouraged him to begin measurements of the amount of energy released by the splitting of the bonds of creatine phosphate and other phosphate derivatives. Otto Meyerhof and the Physiology Institute: the Birth of Modern Biochemistry
- They do, however, legally obtain, and often use in prodigious amounts, a product known as creatine phosphate, which doesn't build muscle, but is believed to boost athletic performance by enhancing cellular-energy production. Toxic Strength
- As the structural and thermodynamic data about ATP mounted, combined with the enzymatic information and the discovery of myosin, Meyerhof was finally in a position to formally propose that the release of energy in ATP hydrolysis was the primary event leading to muscle contraction and that lactic acid and creatine phosphate were only indirectly involved through their role of maintaining the ATP cycle. Otto Meyerhof and the Physiology Institute: the Birth of Modern Biochemistry
- One milestone came in 1934 when Lohmann observed that phosphate molecules from creatine phosphate combine with adenylic acid to form ATP, yet without producing heat. Otto Meyerhof and the Physiology Institute: the Birth of Modern Biochemistry
- Meyerhof now tentatively proposed that lactic acid formation supplied the energy for the continuous resynthesis of creatine phosphate at the moment of contraction. Otto Meyerhof and the Physiology Institute: the Birth of Modern Biochemistry
