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What is the difference between substrate-level and oxidative phosphorylation?

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Substrate-level: direct generation of ATP/GTP by kinases

Oxidative: indirect bulk generation of ATP in mitochondria

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How is oxidative phosphorylation increased in the inner membrane of mitochondria?

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The cristae are folds which increase surface area for ETC proteins

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What is complex I?

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NADH-Q oxidoreductase/NADH dehydrogenase

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What are the 4 membrane proteins in ETC?

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Complex I - NADH-Q oxidoreductase/NADH dehydrogenase

Complex II - Succinate-Q reductase/ succinate dehydrogenase

Complex III - Q-cytochrome C oxidoreductase

Complex IV - cytochrome C oxidase

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What is complex II?

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Succinate-Q reductase / succinate dehydrogenase

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What is complex III?

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Q-cytochrome c oxidoreductase

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What is complex IV?

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cytochrome C oxidase

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What are the 2 electron carriers in ETC?

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Co-enzyme Q (ubiquinone)

Cytochrome C

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Why does electron only go one way in the ETC?

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Because complex IV has higher affinity for e- than complex I

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How does Complex I acquire e- from NADH?

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Complex I has a higher affinity for e- than NADH

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How does proton go from matrix to intermembrane space?

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Complex I, III, IV accept e- and by doing so releases energy to pump protons across membrane

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Where is complex II from?

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An enzyme from the TCA cycle (It sits in the inner mitochondrial membrane)

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What does complex II do?

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It uses FAD as cofactor to directly communicate w/ Coenzyme Q.

As e- pass from FADH2 to Coenzyme Q, Complex II picks up a pair of protons, regenerating FAD and forming QH2

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When does ETC end?

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When complex IV has 4e- to from H2O

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Why are fewer ATP molecules produced when FADH2 is reoxidised by ETC compared with NADH?

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Complex I is bypassed and fewer protons are pumped to the innermembrane space

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What does cytochrome c do?

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transfers electrons from complex III to complex IV

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How do redox reactions govern oxidative phosphorylation?

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By substrates’ ability to accept/donate e-

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How to define redox reactions?

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Electron transfer reaction involving a reduced & oxidised substrate

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What does a reduced substrate do?

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It donates e- and gets oxidised

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What does an oxidised substrate do?

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It accepts e- and gets reduced

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What is a redox couple?

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A substrate that can exist in both reduced and oxidised form

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What is the reduction/redox potential?

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Ability for redox couple to accept/donate e-

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What is the standard redox potential measured against?

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The hydrogen electrode

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What does a standard NEGATIVE redox potential indicate?

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Tendency to donate e-, it has more reducing power than H

eg NAD+/NADH

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What does a standard POSITIVE redox potential indicate?
Tendency to accept e-, it has more oxidising power than H eg Fe3+/2+ , 0.5O2/H2O
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How does e- energy progress along the chain?
Transfer of electron is energetically favourable, e- loses energy as it progresses along chain
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What is ATP synthase?
A multimeric enzyme that consist of a membrane bound part and a part that projects into the matrix
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How does ATP synthase work to synthesise ATP?
Rotation of central shaft influences conformation and arrangements of subunit, energy from conformation promote formation of ATP from bound ADP + Pi
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What are the steps to rotate the shaft of ATP synthase?
1. H+ goes down proton gradient (IMS to matrix) 2. Chemical energy stored in proton gradient is converted to mechanical/rotational energy 3. H+ drive rotor by binding to rotor subunits (only protonated subunits can rotate into membrane)
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How does hydrolysis happen with ATP synthase?
When H+ gradient is higher in the matrix than the intermembrane space, ATP breaks down into ADP + Pi to provide energy to move H+ to IMS
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What is the oxygen electrode?
A device to measure O2 conc. in solution
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What is the base of the oxygen electrode chamber formed by?
Teflon membrane (permeable to O2)
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What is under the Teflon membrane?
Compartment with Pt cathode (+) & Ag anode (-)
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What happens when voltage is applied between electrodes?
O2 diffuses through membrane - reduced at Pt cathode At Ag anode, Ag oxidised to AgCl by KCl electrolyte
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How can we use the oxygen electrode to test components of ETC?
1. Prepare suspension of mitochondria + place it in | 2. Observe oxygen consumption of suspension for a set time period to determine various substrates and inhibitors
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How do we conduct the test w/ oxygen electrode?
1. Measure baseline respiration 2. Add known amount of ADP (rapid consumption of O2 -steeper gradient) 3. Calculate ratio of amount of ADP phosphorylated by mitochondria to amount of O2 consumed
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What is the ADP:oxygen index?
Measure of efficiency of mitochondrial phosphorylation system
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What happens when all the ADP has been consumed? (Oxygen electrode test)
Level of respiration returns to baseline gradient
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How long does each ATP molecule live for?
1-5 min(s)
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Around how many times is ATP recycled a day?
300 times
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What happens when oxidative phosphorylation/ATP synthesis is interrupted?
Cell death
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What is the most common failure to oxidative phosphorylation/ATP synthesis?
Lack of O2 (Hypoxia - diminished O2) (Anoxia - total lack of O2)
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What is respiratory control?
Uptake of O2 by mitochondria which is controlled by ADP+Pi Allows body to adapt O2 consumption to body energy requirements
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What are metabolic poisons?
Molecules that interfere w/ ATP synthesis - flow of e- along ETC - flow of H+ through ATP synthase
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What are some examples of metabolic poisons?
Cyanide (CN-) & Azide (N3-) Malonate Rotenone Oligomycin Dinitrophenol (DNP)
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What does Cyanide & Azide do?
Bind w/ high affinity to Fe3+ of haem group in complex IV
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What does malonate do?
competitively inhibit succinate dehydrogenase (resembles succinate) Slows down flow of e- from succinate to ubiquinone
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What does rotenone do?
Inhibits transfer of e- from complex I to ubiquinone
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what does oligomycin do?
Bind to stalks of ATP synthase, block flow of proton Inhibiting oxidative phosphorylation
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What does dinitrophenol (DNP) do?
Shuttles protons across inner mitochondrial membrane
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Why is dinitrophenol dangerous?
It uncouples OxPhos from ATP production - increases metabolic rate & body temp

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