“…Groups donated from ATP include the phosphoryl, pyrophosphoryl, adenylyl, and adenosinyl moieties (Mahler and Cordes, 1971), as shown in Figure 1. Aden1,lyl transfer is particularly common in biosynthesis, for example, in the activation of carboxyl gioups for which a gc*neralized two-step mechanism is (Stadtman, 1973)…”