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. 1984 May;81(9):2606–2610. doi: 10.1073/pnas.81.9.2606

Relationship between lateral diffusion, collision frequency, and electron transfer of mitochondrial inner membrane oxidation-reduction components.

S Gupte, E S Wu, L Hoechli, M Hoechli, K Jacobson, A E Sowers, C R Hackenbrock
PMCID: PMC345118  PMID: 6326133

Abstract

Fluorescence recovery after photobleaching was used to determine the diffusion coefficients of the oxidation-reduction (redox) components ubiquinone, complex III (cytochromes b-c1), cytochrome c, and complex IV (cytochrome oxidase) of the mitochondrial inner membrane. All redox components diffuse in two dimensions as common-pool electron carriers. Cytochrome c diffuses in two and three dimensions concomitantly, and its diffusion rate, unlike that of all other redox components, is modulated along with its activity by ionic strength. The diffusion coefficients established in this study reveal that the theoretical diffusion-controlled collision frequencies of all redox components are greater than their experimental maximum (uncoupled) turnover numbers. Since electron transport is slower than the theoretical limit set by the lateral diffusion of the redox components, ordered chains, assemblies, or aggregates of redox components are not necessary to account for electron transport. Rather, mitochondrial electron transport is diffusion coupled, consistent with a "random-collision model" for electron transport.

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