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The article didn't say. Actually, it said all metabolism. I'm not sure how that would be measured. One could measure co2 production if the subject wasn't moving. But that doesn't make sense because they were comparing it to a hovering hummingbird, so... Anyhow, it wasn't what I was searching for so I didn't look into the details. I was hoping to find some organism that had another pathway. It looks to me like we lose 6 carbons. Anyhow, since nothing more efficient exists, i'm inventing a fictional pathway. Anyone much better than me at chemistry want to invent an equation that gives me more ATP? Or if anyone has a fatty acid equation, that would also work., I had this idea to have a process that added to the carbon chain of fatty acids before matabolisming them. Not quite sure how that might ficticiously work., i mean we do have a process that turns sugar into fat, i understand it uses quite a bit of energy to do this, so it's counter productive.

Thanks. Hummingbirds are very interesting. From what I read they use ingested sugar for 90% of thier metabolism where humans only use 30%. But what I wasn't able to find out is if their mitochondria actually produced more ATP per glucose molecule. Which is what I was hoping for. I find it so hard to believe that there is no diversity in cell respiration. I was kinda hoping that if mitochondria was once a prokaryotic cell, there would be other prokaryotes that breathed differently and if one of those more efficient breathers had combined with eukaryotes, it would have became more efficient mitochondria. But, it appears that 36 ATP is all i'm going to get out of a glucose molecule. So, to answer why increase the COX?.. Because i'm afraid it's the only way. I should also be more specific here about efficient. I'm trying to stretch food. So, more not faster

I'm looking for a way to modify mitochondria to more efficiently produces ATP. Right now i'm considering increasing COX production. Even though it causes cell death. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005272811001605 My other idea was to find a more efficient eukaryote and 'swap out' whatever prekaryote out cells merged with long ago. Anyone know of a eukaryote with a higher efficiency rate than 38% Thanks in advance.

Hi everyone, I'm yet another writer looking for science help. I have scientists doing 'something' with the PTL and PDK4 genes and they need to mess it up and have to start the project from scratch again. What could be such a big mess up? I don't think it matters but they are looking more efficient ATP metabolism. Any ideas are greatly appreciated. Thanks!!