Brown fat is a specialized tissue found especially in infant…
Brown fat is a specialized tissue found especially in infants and hibernating mammals. Brown fat mitochondria have proton channels located in their inner membranes that allow protons to flow from the intermembrane space into the mitochondrial matrix without passing through ATP synthase. What does the flow of protons through these channels mean for the organism?
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If one follows the respiratory energy transfers and transformations sequentially from glucose through glycolysis, pyruvate oxidation, and the citric acid cycle, but before the electron transport chain and oxidative phosphorylation, most of the free energy captured from the original glucose molecule is found in:
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