Electron Transport Carriers in Plant Mitochondria

Nature ◽  
1967 ◽  
Vol 214 (5088) ◽  
pp. 616-617 ◽  
Author(s):  
WALTER D. BONNER ◽  
MARIJANA PLESNICAR
Keyword(s):  
Electron Transport ◽  
Plant Mitochondria

scholarly journals Regulation of Electron Transport in Plant Mitochondria under State 4 Conditions

1991 ◽  
Vol 95 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony L. Moore ◽  
Ian B. Dry ◽  
Joseph T. Wiskich
Keyword(s):  
Electron Transport ◽  
Plant Mitochondria

Ubiquinone Redox Behavior in Plant Mitochondria during Electron Transport

1995 ◽  
Vol 317 (1) ◽  
pp. 156-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Ribascarbo ◽  
J.T. Wiskich ◽  
J.A. Berry ◽  
J.N. Siedow
Keyword(s):  
Electron Transport ◽  
Plant Mitochondria ◽  
Redox Behavior

scholarly journals Stress signalling dynamics of the mitochondrial electron transport chain and oxidative phosphorylation system in higher plants

2019 ◽  
Vol 125 (5) ◽  
pp. 721-736 ◽  
Author(s):  
Corentin Dourmap ◽  
Solène Roque ◽  
Amélie Morin ◽  
Damien Caubrière ◽  
Margaux Kerdiles ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Electron Transport ◽  
Oxidative Phosphorylation ◽  
Electron Transport Chain ◽  
Plant Mitochondria ◽  
Mitochondrial Electron Transport Chain ◽  
Oxidative Phosphorylation System ◽  
Transport Chain ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Stress Signalling

Abstract Background Mitochondria play a diversity of physiological and metabolic roles under conditions of abiotic or biotic stress. They may be directly subjected to physico-chemical constraints, and they are also involved in integrative responses to environmental stresses through their central position in cell nutrition, respiration, energy balance and biosyntheses. In plant cells, mitochondria present various biochemical peculiarities, such as cyanide-insensitive alternative respiration, and, besides integration with ubiquitous eukaryotic compartments, their functioning must be coupled with plastid functioning. Moreover, given the sessile lifestyle of plants, their relative lack of protective barriers and present threats of climate change, the plant cell is an attractive model to understand the mechanisms of stress/organelle/cell integration in the context of environmental stress responses. Scope The involvement of mitochondria in this integration entails a complex network of signalling, which has not been fully elucidated, because of the great diversity of mitochondrial constituents (metabolites, reactive molecular species and structural and regulatory biomolecules) that are linked to stress signalling pathways. The present review analyses the complexity of stress signalling connexions that are related to the mitochondrial electron transport chain and oxidative phosphorylation system, and how they can be involved in stress perception and transduction, signal amplification or cell stress response modulation. Conclusions Plant mitochondria are endowed with a diversity of multi-directional hubs of stress signalling that lead to regulatory loops and regulatory rheostats, whose functioning can amplify and diversify some signals or, conversely, dampen and reduce other signals. Involvement in a wide range of abiotic and biotic responses also implies that mitochondrial stress signalling could result in synergistic or conflicting outcomes during acclimation to multiple and complex stresses, such as those arising from climate change.

The multiplicity of dehydrogenases in the electron transport chain of plant mitochondria

Mitochondrion ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan G. Rasmusson ◽  
Daniela A. Geisler ◽  
Ian M. Møller
Keyword(s):  
Electron Transport ◽  
Electron Transport Chain ◽  
Plant Mitochondria ◽  
Transport Chain

scholarly journals Role of Nonohmicity in the Regulation of Electron Transport in Plant Mitochondria

1989 ◽  
Vol 91 (2) ◽  
pp. 487-492 ◽  
Author(s):  
David G. Whitehouse ◽  
Anne-Catherine Fricaud ◽  
Anthony L. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Electron Transport ◽  
Plant Mitochondria

Possible role of free oxidation processes in the regulation of reactive oxygen species production in plant mitochondria

2003 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 1316-1317 ◽  
Author(s):  
V.N. Popov
Keyword(s):  
Reactive Oxygen Species ◽  
Electron Transport ◽  
Electron Transport Chain ◽  
Plant Mitochondria ◽  
Reactive Oxygen ◽  
Oxygen Species ◽  
Oxidation Processes ◽  
Transport Chain ◽  
Electron Reduction ◽  
Species Production

The non-coupled substrate oxidation mediated by components of the electron transport chain that are not coupled to energy accumulation (such as plant alternative oxidase and rotenone-insensitive NADH dehydrogenases) and uncoupled respiration are peculiar features of plant mitochondria. The physiological significance of such energy-wasting oxidation processes is still debated. It is proposed that non-coupled oxidation could regulate the level of reduction of components of the electron transport chain and the rate of one-electron reduction of oxygen, thereby affecting the rate of formation of reactive oxygen species.

scholarly journals Charge screening by cations affects the conformation of the mitochondrial inner membrane. A study of exogenous NAD(P)H oxidation in plant mitochondria

1981 ◽  
Vol 195 (3) ◽  
pp. 583-588 ◽  
Author(s):  
I M Møller ◽  
J M Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Electron Transport ◽  
Protein Complexes ◽  
Plant Mitochondria ◽  
Lateral Diffusion ◽  
Jerusalem Artichoke ◽  
Inner Membrane ◽  
Mitochondrial Inner Membrane ◽  
Rate Limiting Step ◽  
Limiting Step ◽  
Rate Limiting

Cations caused a decrease in the apparent Km and an increase in the Vmax. for the oxidation of exogenous NADH by both Jerusalem-artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus) and Arum maculatum (cuckoo-pint) mitochondria prepared and suspended in a low-cation medium (approximately or equal to 1 mM-K+). In Arum mitochondria the addition of cations caused a much greater stimulation of the oxidation of NAD(P)H via the cytochrome oxidase pathway than via the alternative, antimycin-insensitive, pathway. This shows that cations affected a rate-limiting step in the electron-transport chain at or beyond ubiquinone, the branch-point of electron transport in plant mitochondria. The effects were only dependent on the valency of the cation (efficiency C3+ greater than C2+ greater than C+) and not on its chemical nature, which is consistent with the theory of the diffuse layer. The results are interpreted to show that the screening of fixed negative membrane changes on lipids and protein complexes causes a conformational change in the mitochondrial inner membrane, leading to a change in a rate-limiting step of NAD(P)H oxidation. More specifically, it is proposed that screening removes electrostatic restrictions on lateral diffusion and thus accelerates diffusion-limited steps in electron transport.

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