ATP Yield from Oxidation of Glucose in Aerobic Respiration
The net ATP-yield in eukaryotes from glycolysis, TCA cycle, and electron transport and oxidative phosphorylation can be readily calculated. Before the general acceptance of the chemiosmotic hypothesis for oxidative phosphorylation, this calculation was based on phosphate/oxygen ratio (P/O ratio). Most experiments yielded P/O (ATP to ½ O2) ratio of more than two when NADH was the electron donor, and more [...]