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18g: Summary

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    Name: ______________________________

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    Student ID#:__________________________

    Summary

    Schematics for Oxidative Phosphorylation:

    • Complete the following picture of oxidative phosphorylation with the following pieces of information:
      • Indicate where the TCA cycle occurs.
      • Show the flow of protons for each complex.
      • Indicate the source of electrons into Complex 1.
      • Indicate the reaction that is the sink of eletrons for Complex IV.
      • Draw in the mobile e-carries (cyt c and UQ) and their paths.
      • For each mobile reactant/ product, draw their Lewis structure (for cytochrome C deaw the heme) .
      • Show where ATP is produced.
      • Write the balanced net equation for each complex.
      • Calculate the ΔG for each individual complex.

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    Practice Problems:

    1. Matching: Choose the correct answer from the list below. Not all of the answers will be used.

      1. mitochondria

      2. FMN

      3. iron-sulfur clusters

      4. transporters

      5. succinate dehydrogenase

      6. cytochrome c oxidase (or Complex IV)

      7. coenzyme Q (or UQ)

      ____________ This is where oxidative phosphorylation occurs in eukaryotes.

      ____________ This electron carrier is a derivative of quinone and has an isoprenoid tail.

      ____________ This enzyme catalyzes the reduction of O2.

      ____________ This prosthetic group is present in complexes I, II, and III of electron transport.

      ____________ This citric acid cycle enzyme is also part of an electron-transport complex.

    2. Fill in the blank:

      • A strong oxidizing agent has a strong tendency to ____________ (accept, donate) electron(s).

      • In the initial step of Complex I, two high-potential electrons are transferred from NADH to the ___________ prosthetic group of this complex.

      • Cytochrome ________ is the only water-soluble cytochrome of the electron-transport chain.

      • Cytochrome c oxidase contains two heme A groups and three ______________ ions.

      • ________________ carries electrons from Complex III to Complex IV.

      • _________________ is a poison because it blocks the flow of electrons from cytochrome c to oxygen.

    3. Match complex I-V with its characteristics (there may be more than one answer per line).

      • pumps protons across membrane

      • takes part in electron chain

      • sends out ubiquinol as a mobile electron carrier

      • sends out cytochrome c as a mobile electron carrier

      • reduces O2 to H2O

      • produces ATP

    4. Julia Janzon and coworkers at Goethe University in Frankfurt studied electron transfer from mobile cytochrome c1F to ruthenium-substituted cytochrome c522F. The ionic strength of the solution was increased by adding KCl.

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      1. What happens to the electron transfer rate constant (k12) as ionic strength (I) increases?

      2. Propose a physical reason for this relationship.

      3. In mutagenesis studies, replacement of a glutamic acid near the heme in c522F with a lysine cuts the electron transfer rate in half. Suggest an explanation for this observation.


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