Description
A phosphate, an inorganic chemical, is a salt of phosphoric acid. In solutions (near physiological pH values) the species HPO42- and H2PO4- will dominate.
Reference: Scheibye-Knudsen 2009 Eur J Appl Physiol
MitoPedia topics:
Substrate and metabolite
Comment:
Most of the media used in HRR already contain phosphate because it is not that easy to isolate mitochondria in buffers without phosphate. Furthermore obtaining a Leak state without phosphate will not work that good.