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Thermodynamic control of electron flux through mitochondrial cytochrome bc1 complex

G C Brown et al. Biochem J. 1985.

Abstract

The redox states of exogenously added ubiquinone-2 and cytochrome c, and the protonmotive force (delta p) of rat liver mitochondria were measured as the respiration rate was titrated with the uncoupler carbonyl cyanide p-trifluoromethoxyphenyl-hydrazone. The force ratio delta Eh/delta p across the bc1 complex was close to 1:1 in State 4, indicating an H+/e- stoichiometry of 1:1 for the cytochrome bc1 complex, excluding protons moved by pool ubiquinone. Assuming a constant stoichiometry the rate of electron transport increased linearly with the disequilibrium (delta Eh - delta p) across the complex.

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