Electron transport chain | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 11/01/2019

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00:03:08 1 In mitochondria
00:04:44 1.1 Mitochondrial redox carriers
00:06:42 1.1.1 Complex I
00:08:39 1.1.2 Complex II
00:09:55 1.1.3 Complex III
00:12:29 1.1.4 Complex IV
00:13:14 1.2 Coupling with oxidative phosphorylation
00:15:38 1.3 Summary
00:16:48 2 In bacteria
00:19:10 2.1 Electron donors
00:20:25 2.2 Dehydrogenases
00:21:24 2.3 Quinone carriers
00:21:54 2.4 Proton pumps
00:23:08 2.5 Cytochrome electron carriers
00:24:21 2.6 Terminal oxidases and reductases
00:25:46 2.7 Electron acceptors
00:27:11 2.8 Summary
00:27:34 3 Photosynthetic
00:27:43 4 Summary
00:28:19 5 See also
00:29:31 6 References
00:30:04 7 External links



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An electron transport chain (ETC) is a series of complexes that transfer electrons from electron donors to electron acceptors via redox (both reduction and oxidation occurring simultaneously) reactions, and couples this electron transfer with the transfer of protons (H+ ions) across a membrane. This creates an electrochemical proton gradient that drives the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP), a molecule that stores energy chemically in the form of highly strained bonds. The molecules of the chain include peptides, enzymes (which are proteins or protein complexes), and others. The final acceptor of electrons in the electron transport chain during aerobic respiration is molecular oxygen although a variety of acceptors other than oxygen such as sulfate exist in anaerobic respiration.
Electron transport chains are used for extracting energy via redox reactions from sunlight in photosynthesis or, such as in the case of the oxidation of sugars, cellular respiration. In eukaryotes, an important electron transport chain is found in the inner mitochondrial membrane where it serves as the site of oxidative phosphorylation through the action of ATP synthase. It is also found in the thylakoid membrane of the chloroplast in photosynthetic eukaryotes. In bacteria, the electron transport chain is located in their cell membrane.
In chloroplasts, light drives the conversion of water to oxygen and NADP+ to NADPH with transfer of H+ ions across chloroplast membranes. In mitochondria, it is the conversion of oxygen to water, NADH to NAD+ and succinate to fumarate that are required to generate the proton gradient.
Electron transport chains are major sites of premature electron leakage to oxygen, generating superoxide and potentially resulting in increased oxidative stress.
The electron transport chain consists of a spatially separated series of redox reactions in which electrons are transferred from a donor molecule to an acceptor molecule. The underlying force driving these reactions is the Gibbs free energy of the reactants and products. The Gibbs free energy is the energy available ("free") to do work.  Any reaction that decreases the overall Gibbs free energy of a system is thermodynamically spontaneous.
The function of the electron transport chain is to produce a transmembrane proton electrochemical gradient as a result of the redox reactions. If protons flow back through the membrane, they enable mechanical work, such as rotating bacterial flagella. ATP synthase, an enzyme highly conserved among all domains of life, converts this mechanical work into chemical energy by producing ATP, which  powers most cellular reactions.
A small amount of ATP is available from substrate-level phosphorylation, for example, in glycolysis. In most organisms the majority of ATP is generated in electron transport chains, while only some obtain ATP by fermentation.