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MOLECULAR CELL
Volume 32, Issue 4, Pages 529-539Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2008.10.021
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- Spanish Ministry of Education [SAF2006-00428, CSD2007-00020]
- EU [EUMITOCOMBAT-LSHM-CT-2004-503116]
- DGA [B55]
- Spanish Ministry of Education
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The structural organization of the mitochondrial respiratory complexes as four big independently moving entities connected by the mobile carriers CoQ and cytochrome c has been challenged recently. Blue native gel electrophoresis reveals the presence of high-molecular-weight bands containing several respiratory complexes and suggesting an in vivo assembly status of these structures (respirasomes). However, no functional evidence of the activity of supercomplexes as true respirasomes has been provided yet. We have observed that (1) supercomplexes are not formed when one of their component complexes is absent; (2) there is a temporal gap between the formation of the individual complexes and that of the supercomplexes; (3) some putative respirasomes contain CoQ and cytochrome c; (4) isolated respirasomes can transfer electrons from NADH to 02, that is, they respire. Therefore, we have demonstrated the existence of a functional respirasome and propose a structural organization model that accommodates these findings.
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