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- Mitochondria are crucial for ATP production in nonphotosynthetic organisms, acting as the cell's power plant by utilizing nutrients and oxygen.
- They also help maintain the cell's redox balance, which is important for overall cellular function.
- The review discusses the complex relationship between ATP synthesis and the cell's redox state, highlighting some processes and theoretical models that explain this integration.
Article Abstract
In nonphotosynthetic organisms, mitochondria are the power plant of the cell, emphasizing their great potentiality for adenosine triphosphate (ATP) synthesis from the redox span between nutrients and oxygen. Also of great importance is their role in the maintenance of the cell redox balance. Even though crystallographic structures of respiratory complexes, ATP synthase, and ATP/adenosine diphosphate (ADP) carrier are now quite well known, the coupling between ATP synthesis and cell redox state remains a controversial issue. In this review, we will present some of the processes that allow a modular coupling between ATP synthesis and redox state. Furthermore, we will present some theoretical approaches of this highly integrated system.
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