People who are infected with HIV do not get sick immediately. It can take the body months to attempt to fight off the virus and for a patient to test HIV-positive. So, paradoxically, the period when an HIV-positive person is most infectious coincides with the period he or she is least likely to know their status.
The ATP synthase of mitochondria and chloroplasts is an anabolic enzyme that harnesses the energy of a transmembrane proton gradient as an energy source for adding an inorganic phosphate group to a molecule of adenosine diphosphate (ADP) to form a molecule of adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
This step is a direct nucleophilic attack of the hydroxyl group on the terminal phosphoryl group of the ATP molecule (Aleshin, 99). This produces glucose-6-phosphate and ADP. Hexokinase is the enzyme that catalyzes this phosphoryl-group-transfer.exokinase undergoes and induced-fit conformational change when it binds to glucose, which ultimately prevents the hydrolysis of ATP. It is also allosterically inhibited by physiological concentrations of its immediate product, glucose-6-phosphate.