I know next to nothing of biology, but I would naïvely expect the structure of the ATP, ADP, AMP, etc. to be fixed across all organisms with mitochondria. Shouldn’t copying errors or variations that produce something other than ATP in place of ATP kill any eukaryote, let alone a human? Perhaps you mean variations to ATP synthase?
I know little biology, too. I can check back with the person who told me that—the way I understood it was that there are slightly different versions of ATP, some of which are more efficient, but all of which work.
The WP article doesn’t mention anything of the kind, and when I studied freshman biochemistry nothing like that was mentioned, either. OTOH there’s a lot of variations in the (vastly bigger, more complex and more diverse and numerous) organic molecules that work with ATP.
I know next to nothing of biology, but I would naïvely expect the structure of the ATP, ADP, AMP, etc. to be fixed across all organisms with mitochondria. Shouldn’t copying errors or variations that produce something other than ATP in place of ATP kill any eukaryote, let alone a human? Perhaps you mean variations to ATP synthase?
I know little biology, too. I can check back with the person who told me that—the way I understood it was that there are slightly different versions of ATP, some of which are more efficient, but all of which work.
The WP article doesn’t mention anything of the kind, and when I studied freshman biochemistry nothing like that was mentioned, either. OTOH there’s a lot of variations in the (vastly bigger, more complex and more diverse and numerous) organic molecules that work with ATP.