Editing Hydrogen carrier

{{Short description|Organic macromolecule transporting atoms of hydrogen for use in various metabolical processes}}A '''hydrogen carrier''' is an [[organic compound|organic]] [[macromolecule]] that transports [[atom]]s of [[hydrogen]] from one place to another inside a cell or from cell to cell for use in various metabolical processes.<ref>{{Cite web |date=December 6, 2018 |title=Hydrogen Carriers for Bulk Storage and Transport of Hydrogen Webinar: Text Version |url=https://www.energy.gov/eere/fuelcells/hydrogen-carriers-bulk-storage-and-transport-hydrogen-webinar-text-version |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221210180814/https://www.energy.gov/eere/fuelcells/hydrogen-carriers-bulk-storage-and-transport-hydrogen-webinar-text-version |archive-date=2022-12-10 |access-date=2022-12-10 |website=[[United States Department of Energy]] |language=en}}</ref> Examples include [[NADPH]], [[Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide|NADH]], and [[Flavin adenine dinucleotide|FADH]]. The main role of these is to transport hydrogen atom to [[electron transport chain]] which will change ADP to ATP by adding one phosphate during [[Metabolism|metabolic]] processes (e.g. [[photosynthesis]] and [[Cellular respiration|respiration]]). Hydrogen carrier participates in an [[Oxidation-Reduction Reaction|oxidation-reduction reaction]]<ref>"Oxidation-reduction reaction." ''Britannica Academic'', Encyclopædia Britannica, 5 Aug. 2019. academic.eb.com/levels/collegiate/article/oxidation-reduction-reaction/110112. Accessed 11 Dec. 2019.</ref> by getting reduced due to the acceptance of a Hydrogen. The enzyme used in [[Glycolysis]],<ref>Kusinitz, Marc. "Glycolysis." ''The Gale Encyclopedia of Science'', edited by K. Lee Lerner and Brenda Wilmoth Lerner, 5th ed., vol. 4, Gale, 2014, pp. 2016-2017. ''Gale Ebooks'', https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX3727801120/GVRL?u=cuny_hunter&sid=GVRL&xid=c7c29620 . Accessed 11 Dec. 2019.</ref> [[Dehydrogenase]] is used to attach the hydrogen to one of the hydrogen carrier.<ref>{{Citation |last1=Yost |first1=Haley |title=Chapter 7 - Decreased bioenergetics in traumatic brain injury |date=2021-01-01 |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128196212000073 |work=Clinical Bioenergetics |pages=169–194 |editor-last=Ostojic |editor-first=Sergej |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221210181134/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128196212000073 |publisher=Academic Press |language=en |doi=10.1016/B978-0-12-819621-2.00007-3 |isbn=978-0-12-819621-2 |access-date=2022-12-10 |archive-date=2022-12-10 |last2=Quijas |first2=Meranda |last3=Smith |first3=Hayley |last4=Reed |first4=Tanea|s2cid=230565672 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Electron carrier]]
* [[Light reactions]]
* [[Photosynthesis]]
* [[Cellular respiration]]

==References==
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==External links==
* http://www.biology-online.org/1/3_respiration.htm 
* https://web.archive.org/web/20100727214925/http://student.ccbcmd.edu/~gkaiser/biotutorials/energy/oxphos.html

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