Chapter 18 Flashcards
electrons from the reduced coenzymes NADH and FADH2 pass through a series of redox centers in the electron-transport chain before
reducing O2
during electron transfer protons are translocated out of the mitochondrion to form an … whose free energy drives ATP synthesis
electrochemical gradient
the mitochondrion contain soluble and membrane-bound enzymes for …
oxidative metabolism
reducing equivalents are imported from the cytosol via a shuttle system. specific transporters mediate the transmembrane movements of …, … and …
ADP; ATP; Pi
electrons flow from redox centers with more … reduction potentials to those with more … reduction potentials. inhibitors have been used to reveal the sequence of electron carriers and the points of entry of electrons into the electron-transport chain
negative; positive
electron transport is mediated by … (Fe-S clusters, cytochromes, and Cu ions) and …. (CoQ, FMN, FAD)
one-electron carriers; two-electron carriers
Complex I transfers two electrons from … to … while translocating .. protons to the intermembrane space
NADH; CoQ; four
Complex II transfers electrons from … through … to …
succinate; FAD; CoQ
Complex III transfers two electrons from … to two molecules of … the concomitant operation of the Q cycle translocates .. protons to the intermembrane space
CoQH2; cytochrome c; four
Complex IV reduces … to … using four electrons donated by four cytochrome c and four protons from the matrix. … protons are translocated to the intermembrane space for every … electrons that reduce oxygen
O2; 2H2O; two; two
as explained by the chemiosmotic theory, protons translocated into the intermembrane space during electron transport through Complexes I, III, and IV establish an … across the …
electrochemical gradient; inner mitochondrial membrane
the influx of protons through the F0 component of ATP synthase drives its F1 component to synthesize ATP from ADP + Pi via the … mechanism, a process that is mechanically driven by the F0-mediated rotation of F1’s gamma subunit with respect to its catalytic alpha3beta3 assembly
binding change
The P/O ratio, the number of ATPs synthesized per oxygen reduced, need not be an …
integral number
agents that discharge the proton gradient can uncouple … from electron transport
oxidative phosphorylation
oxidative phosphorylation is controlled by the ratio .. and by the …r atio. glycolysis and the citric acid cycle are coordinately regulated according to the need for …
[NADH]/[NAD+]; ATP mass action; oxidative phosphorylation
aerobic metabolism is more efficient than anaerobic metabolism. however, aerobic organisms must guard against the damage caused by …
reactive oxygen species
…: a system of linked electron carriers
mitochondrial electron-transport chain
(electron-transport process) 1. by transferring their electrons to other substances, the NADH and FADH2 are reoxidized to … and … so that they can participate in additional substrate oxidation reactions
NAD+; FAD
(electron-transport process) 2. the transferred electrons participate in the sequential oxidation-reduction of multiple … (groups that undergo redox rxns) in four enzyme complexes before reducing O2 to H2O
redox centers
(electron-transport process) 3. the transfer of electrons is coupled to the expulsion of protons from the mitochondrion, producing a proton gradient across the inner mitochondrial membrane. the free energy stored in this electrochemical gradient drives the synthesis of ATP from ADP and Pi through …
oxidative phosphorylation
A mitochondrion is bounded by a smooth outer membrane and contains an extensively invaginated inner membrane (Fig. 18-2). The number of invaginations, called ….(Latin: crests), refl ects the type of cell and its respiratory activity.
cristae
The inner membrane divides the mitochondrion into two compartments, the … and the internal …. The ….is a gel-like solution that contains extremely high concentrations of the soluble enzymes of oxidative metabolism as well as substrates, nucleotide cofactors, and inorganic ions.
intermembrane space; matrix; matrix
cristae form microcompartments that restrict the diffusion of substrates and ions between the … and … spaces
intercristal; intermembrane
the intermembrane space is equivalent to the … in its concentrations of metabolites and ions
cytosol
the outer mitochondrial membrane contains …, proteins that permit the free diffusion of molecules of up to 10 kD
porins
the controlled impermeability of the inner mitochondrial membrane to most ions and metabolites permits the generation of … across this barrier and results in the …. of metabolic functions between cytosol and mitochondria
ion gradients; compartmentalization
The NADH produced in the cytosol by glycolysis must gain access to the mitochondrial electron-transport chain for aerobic oxidation. However, the inner m itochondrial membrane lacks an NADH transport protein. Only the electrons from cytosolic NADH are transported into the mitochondrion by one of several ingenious ….
“shuttle” systems.
We have already discussed the … shuttle (Fig. 16-20), in which, when run in reverse, cytosolic oxaloacetate is reduced to malate for transport into the mitochondrion. When malate is reoxidized in the matrix, it gives up the reducing equivalents that originated in the cytosol.
malate–aspartate
The …shuttle (Fig. 18-5) is expressed at variable levels in different animal tissues and is especially active in insect fl ight muscle (the tissue with the largest known sustained power output).
glycerophosphate
for the glycerophosphate shuttle:
… catalyzes the oxidation of cytosolic NADH by dihydroxyacetone phosphate to yield NAD+ which reenters glycolysis. the electrons of the resulting … are then transferred to … to form FADH2 which supplies e- directly to the electron-transport chain
3-phosphoglycerol dehydrogenase; 3-phosphoglycerol; flavoprotein dehydrogenase
most of the ATP generated in the … through oxidative phosphorylation is used in the cytosol. the inner mitochondrial membrane contains an … (also called the …) that transports ATP out of the matrix in exchange for ADP produced in the cytosol by ATP-consuming rxns
mitochondrial matrix; ADP-ATP translocator; adenine nucleotide translocase
several natural products inhibit the ATP-ADP translocator, including … and its derivative …
atractyloside (position produced by Mediterranean thistle); carboxyatractyloside
the atp-adp translocator must bind ligand to change from one … to the other at a physiologically reasonable rate. thus it functions as an … by importing one ADP for every ATP
conformation; exchanger
the atp-adp translocator is involved in … antiport
electrogenic
ATP is synthesized from ADP + Pi in the mitochondrion but is utilized in the cytosol. The Pi is returned to the mitochondrion by the …, an electroneutral Pi– H+ symport that is driven by ΔpH.
phosphate carrier
The transmembrane proton gradient generated by the electron-transport machinery of the inner mitochondrial membrane thus not only provides the …. driving force for ATP synthesis (Section 18-3), it also motivates the transport of the …—ADP and Pi—required for the process.
thermodynamic; raw materials
We can estimate the thermodynamic efficiency of electron transport by inspecting the … of the redox centers
standard reduction potentials
The standard reduction potential diff erence, Δℰ°′, for a redox reaction involving any two half-reactions is expressed Δℰ°′ =
ℰ°′ (e−acceptor) − ℰ°′ (e− donor)
In mitochondria, the coupling of NADH oxidation to ATP synthesis is achieved by an electron transport chain in which electrons pass through three protein complexes. This allows the overall free energy change to be broken into…. , each of which contributes to ATP synthesis by oxidative phosphorylation. Oxidation of one NADH results in the synthesis of approximately …
three smaller parcels; 2.5 ATP
Oxidation of NADH and FADH2 is carried out by the electron-transport chain, a series of four protein complexes containing redox centers with progressively greater affinities for electrons (…). Electrons travel through the chain from …to higher standard reduction potentials
increasing standard reduction potentials; lower; higher
Electrons are carried from Complexes ..to Complex .. by the lipid … (CoQ or ubiquinone; so named because of its ubiquity in respiring organisms), and from Complex ..to Complex …by the small soluble protein …
I and II; III; coenzyme Q; II; IV; cytochrome c
Complex I catalyzes oxidation of … by ..
NADH; CoQ
Complex III catalyzes oxidation of … by …
CoQ (reduced); cytochrome c
Complex IV catalyzes oxidation of reduced … by .., the terminal electron acceptor of the electron-transport process
cytochrome c; O2
Complex II catalyzes the oxidation of … by …
This redox rxn does not release sufficient free energy to synthesize ATP; it only functions to inject the electrons from … into the electron-transport chain
FADH2; CoQ; FADH2
the rate at which … by a suspension of mitochondria is a sensitive measure of the activity of the e- transport chain. compounds that inhibit e- transport as judged by their effect on O2 consumption include: … (plant toxin) … (barbiturate) … (antibiotic) …
O2 is consumed; rotenone;
amytal
antimycin A
cyanide
Adding rotenone or amytal to a suspension of mitochondria blocks electron transport in ..; antimycin A blocks .., and CN− blocks electron transport in … (Fig. 18-7). Each of these inhibitors also halts O2 consumption
Complex I; Complex III; Complex IV
Complex I (…), which passes electrons from NADH to CoQ, is the largest protein complex in the inner mitochondrial membrane.
NADH–coenzyme Q oxidoreductase)