We have examined the ultrastructure of mitochondria as it relates to energy metabolism in the intact cell. Oxidative phosphorylation was induced in ultrastructurally intact Ehrlich ascites tumor cells by rapidly generating intracellular adenosine diphosphate from endogenous adenosine triphosphate by the addition of 2-deoxyglucose. The occurrence of oxidative phosphorylation was ascertained indi...

The recently reported cell-free mitochondria in human blood have been thought to be respiratory competent, giving rise speculation about their biological function(s). By characterizing bioenergetics vitro, we show that circulating are unlikely functional vivo since they display no potential for oxidative phosphorylation.

The demonstration by Martius and Nitz-Litzow (4), and Martius (5), that vitamin K1 may play a functional role in oxidative phosphorylation in animals has led to an increased interest in the participation of vitamin Ki and related quinones in electron transport, oxidative phosphorylation, and photosynthetic phosphorylation. Since vitamin K1 is altered by the action of ultraviolet radiation (6), ...

Introduction Thyroid hormones (TI Is) affect cellular metabolism via two different pathways. The first one is the socalled nuclear, long-term effect: there the TI I binds to a nuclear receptor and regulates the transcription o f multiple cellular proteins f 11. The other pathway, the short-term extranuclear pathway, is less w d l defined and could in principle be similar to other short-term sig...

It has been claimed that barbiturates uncouple oxidative phosphorylations (Brody & Bain, 1954; Brody, 1955). These authors have demonstrated that during the oxidation of pyruvate by liver and brain mitochondria, phosphate uptake was lowered proportionately more than oxygen uptake. Support for the uncoupling theory was derived from certain similarities between the barbiturates and 2:4dinitrophen...

The fundamentals of oxidative phosphorylation and photophosphorylation are revisited. New experimental data on the involvement of succinate and malate anions respectively in oxidative phosphorylation and photophosphorylation are presented. These new data offer a novel molecular mechanistic explanation for the energy coupling and ATP synthesis carried out in mitochondria and chloroplast thylakoi...

Uncouplers of oxidative phosphorylation in mitochondria inhibit the coupling between the electron transport and phosphorylation reactions and thus inhibit ATP synthesis without affecting the respiratory chain and ATP synthase (H(+)-ATPase). Miscellaneous compounds are known to be uncouplers, but weakly acidic uncouplers are representative because they show very potent activities. The most poten...