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An important stage of energy transformation in the primary processes of photosynthesis is the formation of an electrochemical potential, which is generated due to transmembrane proton transfer into the thylakoid and transmembrane transfer of other ions: K+, Ca2+, Cl−. Protons accumulating in the lumen are used by a molecular machine ATP–synthase for the production of ATP molecules from ADP and inorganic phosphate (Fig. 16.1).
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Rubin, A., Riznichenko, G. (2014). Spatiotemporal Evolution of Electrochemical Potential Δμ H+ in Photosynthetic Membrane . In: Mathematical Biophysics. Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8702-9_16
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