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General Considerations
• How do we define oxidative
phosphorylation?
– formation of ATP using the energy released by
the transfer of electrons from NADH and
FADH2 through a series of electron carriers
• What couples the formation of ATP to the
transfer of electrons?
– a proton gradient
General Considerations
• Where in the cell does oxidative
phosphorylation take place?
– inner mitocondrial membrane
• What do we know about the mitocondrial
membranes?
– outer membrane – reasonably permeable
• contains porins – VDAC
– inner membrane – relatively impermeable
Origin of Mitocondria
• What is the believed origin of mitocondria?
– endosymbiosis
• What evidence supports this idea?
– mitcondrial DNA
– machinery for transcription and translation
– similarity of genome to bacteria
Redox Potentials and Free
Energy Changes
• How does one determine the redox potential of a
substance?
• Reaction summarized:
– NADH + Q + 5H+matrix NAD+ + QH2 + 4H+cytosol
Electron Transport
• Coenzyme Q also serves as entry point for
electrons from FADH2 from oxidation of
succinate
– succinate-Q reductase complex
• inner mitocondrial membrane
• FADH2 transfers electrons to iron-sulfur
clusters then to Q
– no protons are pumped
Electron Transport
• Q-cytochrome c oxidoreductase catalyzes
the transfer of electrons from Q to
cytochrome c
– What is a cytochrome?
• electron transferring protein with heme prosthetic
group
• transfers only electrons
• iron in heme goes between Fe+2 and Fe+3
Electron Transport
• Q-cytochrome c
oxidoreductase
contains 3 hemes and
a iron-sulfur cluster
Electron Transport
• What is the Q cycle?
– mechanism of coupling of electron transfer from Q to
cytochrome c to proton transport
Electron Transport
• What is the function of cytochrome c
oxidase?
– reduction of oxygen to water
• What are the major prosthetic groups of this
complex?
– CuA/CuA
– heme a
– heme a3-Cub
Cytochrome c Oxidase
Cytochrome c Oxidase
• Mechanism of action
Cytochrome c Oxidase
• cytochrome c oxidase
pumps four additional
protons from matrix
for a total of eight
protons removed from
matrix
Electron Transport System
Electron Transport System
Electron Transport
• Toxic derivatives of molecular oxygen may
be formed by partial reduction
_ _
O2 O2 O2 2
superoxide peroxide
anion
Electron Transport
• How does the cell protect itself against
these reactive oxygen species?
– makes use of superoxide dismutase and catalase
_
– 2O2 + 2H+ O 2 + H2O2
– 2H2O2 O2 + 2H2O
ATP Synthesis
• What is the chemiosmotic hypothesis?
– ATP synthesis and electron transport are coupled by
proton gradient across mitocondrial membrane
ATP Synthesis
• What is ATP synthase
and what do we know
about its structure?
– consists of F1 and F0
– F1 has 5 types of
polypeptide chains
• 3,3,,,
– F0 contains proton
channel
• 10-14 c subunits
• a,b2 subunits
ATP Synthesis
• How is ATP synthesized?
ATP Synthesis
• What is the role of the proton gradient in ATP synthesis?
– part of binding-change mechansm
• 3 subunits promote ADP & P binding, ATP synthesis, ATP release
ATP Synthesis
• How does proton flow
through F0 drive the
rotation of the
subunit?
– each c subunits
consists of 2 helices
with one helix
containing an aspartic
acid residue
– a subunit contains two
proton half channels
ATP Synthesis
• Proton enters half-channel, neutralizes charge on aspartate
• c can rotate clockwise
• proton can move into matrix
ATP Synthesis
• Since c ring is linked to and subunits, as
c turns these subunits rotate
– rotation protmotes synthesis of ATP via
binding-change mechanism
– each 3600 rotation of subunit leads to
synthesis of 3 ATP’s
• 10 protons generate 3 ATP’s
• each ATP requires transport of about 3 protons
Mitocondrial Shuttles
• Reoxidation of
cytosolic NADH
requires shuttle
mechanism
– glycerol 3-phosphate
shuttle
• found in muscle
Mitocondrial Shuttles
• malate-aspartate shuttle
– heart and liver
Mitocondrial Shuttles
• What is an ATP-ADP translocase?
– transport protein allowing ATP to exit mitocondrion and
ADP to enter
– result in moving one negative charge out of matrix
• decreases proton motive force
Mitocondrial Shuttles
• Other mitocondrial transport proteins act as
shuttles
Regulation of Respiration
• Energy formed from
oxidation of glucose
• 3 protons = 1 ATP
• 1 proton used to move
ATP
• one pair of electons
from NADH = 2.5
molecules of ATP
Regulation of Respiration
• What controls rate of electron transport?
Regulation of Respiration
• Oxidative
phosphorylation can
be inhibited by many
substances
Regulation of Respiration
• What are uncoupling agents?
– transport protons across mitocondrial membrane
Regulation of Respiration
• Does uncoupling serve any useful purpose?
– body heat generation