Chapter 11: Oxidative Phosphorylation Flashcards
What is Chemiosmosis?
- Proposed by Peter Mitchell
- 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 is the Electron Transport Chain? What does it start and end with?
- 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 is the symbol for the chemical gradient? What is the symbol for membrane potential?
- ΔpH
- Δψ
How do protons behave like an electrical circuit?
- Resistor- ATP Synthase
- Capacitator - Proton Gradient
- Battery- Electron Transport System
Can the Proton circuit be uncoupled? what happens?
- Can be uncoupled to stop generating ATP
- Causes proton leakage resulting in heat
What do Thermogenin and Oligomycin do?
- Thermogenin passes H+ and energy released as heat
- Oligomycin blocks the flow of H+ through ATP synthase
Describe the structure of the mitochondria.
- Outer mitochondrial membrane
- Intermembrane space
- Inner mitochondrial membrane
- Cristae
- Mitochondrial matrix
What are the complexes and what do they do?
What is the net outcome of ET system?
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)
Describe 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
Outline FMN reactions
Flavin mononucleotide (FMN) –red–> semiquinone –red–> Flavin mononucleotide (FMNH2)
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?
- Converts 2e- transport process into 1e- transfers
- Electrons come from QH2
- Occurs in Complex III
- Cytochrome c is reduced in the process
- Cytochrome c transports 1 e- from Complex III to Complex IV
What is Complex IV and what does it do?
- Protein: Cytochrome c Oxidase
- Accepts electrons one at a time
-cytochrome C is oxidized while O2 is reduced
-2 copper center - Cu2+ <–> Cu+
- 2H+ are translocated across the membrane
2 cytochrome c (red) + 4 HN+ + ½ O2 → 2 cytochrome c (ox) + 2HP+ + H2O
How many protons are required to synthesize 7 ATP?
10 protons
How many ATP does the oxidation of 1 NADH result in?
2.5 ATP
What is the balanced equation of the ET system?
2 NADH + 2 H+ + 5 ADP + 5 Pi + O2 → 2 NAD+ + 5 ATP + 2 H2O