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The two electrons on reduced FAD (FADH 2) are transferred one at a time to FMN and then a single electron is passed from FMN to the heme of the P450. [ 24 ] The P450 systems that are located in the mitochondria are dependent on two electron transfer proteins: An FAD containing adrenodoxin reductase (AR) and a small iron-sulfur group containing ...
Beta oxidation of fatty acids serves as an alternate catabolic pathway that produces acetyl-CoA, NADH, and FADH 2. [1] The production of acetyl-CoA begins the citric acid cycle while the co-enzymes produced are used in the electron transport chain. [11] ATP synthesis as seen from the perspective of the matrix.
An electron transport chain (ETC [1]) is a series of protein complexes and other molecules which transfer electrons from electron donors to electron acceptors via redox reactions (both reduction and oxidation occurring simultaneously) and couples this electron transfer with the transfer of protons (H + ions) across a membrane.
Acetyl-CoA enters the citric acid cycle, generating NADH and FADH 2, which are electron carriers used in the electron transport chain. It is named as such because the beta carbon of the fatty acid chain undergoes oxidation and is converted to a carbonyl group to start the cycle all over again.
FADH 2 is covalently attached to succinate dehydrogenase, an enzyme which functions both in the citric acid cycle and the mitochondrial electron transport chain in oxidative phosphorylation. FADH 2, therefore, facilitates transfer of electrons to coenzyme Q, which is the final electron acceptor of the reaction catalyzed by the succinate ...
FADH 2 then reduces coenzyme Q (ubiquinone to ubiquinol) whose electrons enter into oxidative phosphorylation. [12] This reaction is irreversible. [ 13 ] These electrons bypass Complex I of the electron transport chain , making the glycerol-3-phosphate shuttle less energetically efficient compared to oxidation of NADH by Complex I. [ 14 ]
The last steps of this process occur in mitochondria. The reduced molecules NADH and FADH 2 are generated by the Krebs cycle, glycolysis, and pyruvate processing. These molecules pass electrons to an electron transport chain, which releases the energy of oxygen to create a proton gradient across the inner mitochondrial membrane.
The net gain from one cycle is 3 NADH and 1 FADH 2 as hydrogen (proton plus electron) carrying compounds and 1 high-energy GTP, which may subsequently be used to produce ATP. Thus, the total yield from 1 glucose molecule (2 pyruvate molecules) is 6 NADH, 2 FADH 2, and 2 ATP. [12] [13] [8]: 90–91