Glutamate and ATP at the Interface of Metabolism and Signaling in the Brain

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Parpura, Vladimir (Editor), Schousboe, Arne (Editor), Verkhratsky, Alexei (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Advances in Neurobiology, 11
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Neurobiology.; Biomedicine.

ATP was naturally selected very early on as the main source of biological energy, and thus became an indispensable feature of life on the Earth. This was a critical evolutionary choice because it shaped enzymatic systems to utilize ATP in energy-dependent reactions and necessitated an appearance of...