= ATP synthase
{c}
{tag=Cellular respiration protein}
{tag=Transmembrane protein}
{tag=Protein complex}
{title2=ANT}
One of the most beautiful <molecular machines> known!
The first one with such complexity that was uncovered.
The thing rotates like a water wheel for God's sake, except it uses <protons> instead of water.
The ATP synthase complex is so large that <Power, Sex, Suicide by Nick Lane (2006)> page 123 contains a <cryoEM> image of several <ATP synthases> on small membrane vesicles, this is the paper: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/bi00437a031# under <Closed access academic journals are evil>[a fucking paywall].
\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXpzp4RDGJI]
{title=<ATP synthase> in action by <HarvardX> (2017)}
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