Most ATP production occurs by oxidative phosphorylation

The stage of cellular respiration is .

It involves the transport chain and .

This process takes place in the inner membrane of the .

The two electron shuttles in the electron transport chain are and .

Each oxygen atom (½ O2) accepts two from the surrounding

solution to form , one of the final products of cellular respiration.

is actively transported from where it is concentrated to where it is

concentrated.

Oxygen pulls down the electron transport chain, and without oxygen

no ATP would be produced.

The mitochondrion membrane is not permeable to , so they must

move up through a protein complex of electron carriers, or down through an

When runs down through the , it activates catalytic sites in the

synthase that attach phosphate groups to molecules to generate ATP.

When hydrogen ions are transported through the ATP synthase.

This process is called Oxidative Phosphorylation because the energy derived

from the oxidative-reduction reactions of the electron transport chain is used

to phosphorylate ADP.
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