Ch. 11 Flashcards
What is chemiosmosis?
- Proton gradient is established across the mitochondrial inner membrane
- H+ travels from high to low
- Energy from H+ gradient is used to generate ATP
What does oxidative phosphorylation do for the cell?
- Generates ATP from the oxidation of metabolic fuels
- Accounts for 28 of 32 ATP obtained from glucose breakdown
What is the electron transport chain?
- Series of redox reactions that occur in a set of protein complexes embedded in the inner mitochondrial membranes
Start:
- NADH is oxidized into NAD+
- Citrate cycle is source of NADH
End:
- O2 reduced to H2O
What are the complexes in oxidative phosphorylation and what do they do?
What is the net reaction of oxidative phosphorylation?
2 NADH + 2 H+ + 5 ADP + 5 Pi + O2 –> 2 NAD+ + 5 ATP + 2 H2O
What are the key enzymes of oxidative phosphorylation?
- NADH–ubiquinone oxidoreductase (Complex I: oxidation of NADH and the reduction of FMN –> translocation of 4 H⁺ across the inner mitochondrial membrane)
- Ubiquinone–cytochrome c oxidoreductase (Complex III: oxidation of ubiquinol)
- Cytochrome c oxidase (Complex IV: accepts electrons from cytochrome c and donates them to O2 to form water
Where does NADH oxidation occur?
Complex I
- Takes place on matrix side of inner mitochondrial matrix
- Two electrons initiate multiple Redox reactions
- O2 ends up being reduced to water
- Two electrons enter ET system through FADH2 oxidation
- Electron flow facilitated by sequential arrangement of electron carriers
How do electrons influence translocation of protons in the transport system?
- 2e- from NADH = 10 H+ translocated
- 2e- from FADH2 = 6H+ translocated
- Two new electron carriers
- Q-QH2
- Cytochrome C (ox-red)
What happens in Complex I?
- Protein: NADH-Ubiquinone oxido-reductase
- NADH is oxidized while Coenzyme Q is reduced
- Largest complex
- Covalently bound to Flavin (FMN)
- FMN accepts 2e- from NADH
What is the function of Fe-S clusters?
Complex I
- Exchange 1 e-
Fe3+ ⇋ Fe2+
What is coenzyme Q and what does it do?
- Coenzyme Q acts as a mobile electron carrier and transports electrons from Complex I to Complex III
- Ubiquinone (Q) is reduced to ubiquinol (QH2)
- 4 H+ are translocated from the matrix side of the membrane to the intermembrane space
How do electrons bind to form QH2?
- NADH transfers 2e- to FMN
- 2e- Transferred from carrier to carrier
- 2e- +2H+ bind to Q making QH2
What does Complex II do?
- Protein: succinate dehydrogenase
- citrate cycle: catalyze oxidation reduction of succinate to fumarate
- Coupled redox reaction using FAD
- Reduces coenzyme Q to QH2
FADH2 + Q –> FAD+ + QH2
(no hydrogen translocation)
What does Complex III do?
- Protein: Ubiquinone-cytochrome C oxidoreductase
- Reduces cytochrome c and translocates 4 H+
- Docking site for QH2 and Cytochrome c
- Contains binding sites for ubiquinone (Qp and Qn)
- Transfers e- through an iron sulfur cluster center
- Contains 11 different protein subunits
What is the Q cycle?
- Complex III
- Translocates 4 H+
- Passes 1 electron per Cyt C (there are 2 Cyt C so 2 electrons total)