| | Lecture 9, Electrochemical potential |
 | | To describe this, we need a new term, the electrochemical potential of our charged species, defined as the sum of the chemical and electrical potentials for the component (see definitions of work terms in lecture 3). |
 | | Either a concentration gradient or a gradient in potential will favor transport, but the net gradient will be the sum of the chemical and electrical work terms. |
 | | Transport of protons is of particular importance in biological energy conversion, because the proton circuit couples the free energy changes of electron transfer reactions to the phosphorylation of ADP to ATP, through the proton gradient. |
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