Thermodynamic limits to the stoichiometry of H+ pumping by mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase
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- 22 July 1985
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in FEBS Letters
- Vol. 187 (1), 16-20
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0014-5793(85)81204-7
Abstract
H+/O stoichiometries of 0, 2 and 4 have been proposed for cytochrome oxidase. Here we show that a stoichiometry of 4 is thermodynamically impossible for rat liver cytochrome oxidase under normal conditions.Keywords
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