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The Respiratory Chain & Oxidative Phosphorylation
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BIOMEDICAL IMPORTANCE Capture a far greater proportion of the available free energy – Generation of the high-energy intermediate, ATP A number of drugs inhibit oxidative phosphorylation Several inherited defects have been reported – Myopathy & encephalopathy & often have lactic acidosis.
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Energy capture – Substrate level – Oxidative phosphorylation at the respiratory chain level Components – Respiratory chain – Oxidative phosphorylation – NAD-linked dehydrogenase – Flavoprotein- linked dehydrogenase
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Mitochondria
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Enzymes of Mitochondrial Subcompartments
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Foodstuffs - generation of reducing equivalents (2H) - collected by the respiratory chain for oxidation - coupled generation of ATP. The respiratory chain collects & oxidizes reducing equivalents Conversion of food energy to ATP
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Sources of reducing equivalents – β-oxidation – the citric acid cycle – Extramitochondrial
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Transport of reducing equivalents through the respiratory chain.
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Components of the respiratory chain, collecting points
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Model of complex I.
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Reduction of ubiquinone (UQ)
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Oxidation-Reduction Reactions – electron donor (reductant) – electron acceptor (oxidant)
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Only electrons are transferred both electrons & protons (hydrogen atoms) are transferred
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standard Oxidation-Reduction Potentials for Various Biochemical Reactions
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Components of the respiratory chain arranged in order of increasing redox potential – NAD + /NADH to O 2 /2H 2 O – redox span of 1.1 V Redox carriers – NAD-linked dehydrogenase systems, through flavoproteins and cytochromes, to molecular oxygen – iron-sulfur protein (FeS; nonheme iron)
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Cytochromes – contain a heme group – Heme a,b,c absorption band type of heme group attached to the protein
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Structure of ubiquinone (Q)
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Iron-sulfur-protein complex (Fe4S4)
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The respiratory chain is a proton pump
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The P/O ratio – a measure of the number of ATP molecules formed during the transfer of two electrons through all or part of the electron transport chain.
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enough energy to synthesize three molecules of ATP
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Four protons are taken into the mitochondrion for each ATP exported
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Model for mitochondrial F,Fo-ATP synthase. A rotating molecular motor.
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Experimental evidence for rotation of y. and c·subunits
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Respiratory Control
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States of respiratory control
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MANY POISONS INHIBIT THE RESPIRATORY CHAIN Classification – Inhibitors of the respiratory chain – Inhibitors of oxidative phosphorylation Atractyloside, transporter – Uncouplers of oxidative phosphorylation
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Action of the uncoupler. 2,4-dinitrophenol,
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Activation of UCP-1 by cold adaptation.
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Mitochondrial inner membrane contains substrate transport systems
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Mitochondrial metabolite transporters.
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glycerol-phosphate shuttle malate-aspartate shuttle
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Glycerophosphate shuttle for transfer of reducing equivalents
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Malate shuttle for transfer of reducing equivalents from the cytosol into the mitochondrion
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MITOCHONDRIAL GENES AND DISEASES Subunits of Electron Transport Complexes Encoded by Human Mitochondrial DNA
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MITOCHONDRIAL GENES AND DISEASES Leber's Hereditary Optic Neuropathy – Single base changes NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase (complex I) sudden-onset blindness in early adulthood
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MITOCHONDRIAL GENES AND DISEASES Mutations in Cytochrome b – Exercise Intolerance – lowered activity of the cytochrome bc 1 complex Mutation substituted an aspartate residue for a conserved glycine at position 290. Guanine to adenine transition in the mtDNA, – Missense mutations – Nonsense mutations
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Generation of superoxide anions by mitochondrial electron transfer chain.
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formation of reactive oxygen species superoxide. hydrogen peroxide. and hydroxyl radical.
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Defenses Against Reactive Oxygen Species
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