Biophysics of Mitochondria

The mitochondria in the cell.- Early studies.- Structural features.- Are there giant mitochondria and reticulum.- Evolutionary origins.- Reproduction of mitochondria in cell.- Mitochondrial DNA.- Membrane and matrix proteins.- Bioenergetics.- The respiratory chain.- NADH-dehydrogenase.- Succinate dehydrogenase.- Cytochrome oxidase.- Interactions in enzyme-substrate complexes.- Mechanisms of electron transfer.- Membrane synthesis of ATP.- Proton transport and the chemiosmotic hypothesis.- On the measurement of transmembrane potential.- The conformational hypothesis.- Thermal coupling model.- Photo-respiration and photo-induced synthesis of ATP.- Surface photodesorption .- Flavin and ubiquinone of NADH-dehydrogenases are not involved in the transfer of electrons to artificial acceptors.- The lag-period and the pseudo-oscillations in redox-reactions of NADH with DHPIP.- Electron-conformational properties of the flavoprotein fragment of NADH-dehydrogenase.- Resonantenergy transfer from mitochondrial proteins to NADH.- Flavin loss from NADH-dehydrogenase complex.- Stabilization of NADH-dehydrogenase by adenosine phosphates.- Dehydrogenase mitochondrial activity in the touch, determined by the decrease in tryptophan fluorescence by formosan.- Rotenone-insensitive NADH oxidation by respiratory chain fragments.- Cytochrome-C shunts oxidation of NADH.- NADH-oxidasation mitochondrial activity in hypotension when you block the respiratory chain.- Do mitochondria swell much?.- Some properties of protomitochondria.- Protomitochondria in liver cells.- Germinal protomitochondria.- Fluorimetric comparison of protomitochondria and mitochondria.- Photometry and fluorimetry of protomitochondria from liver of young and adult rats.-Degradation of mitochondria to lipofuscin during heating and lighting.- Production of superoxide and lipofuscin after the loss of flavin by NADH-dehydrogenase.- Some properties of mitochondrial lipofuscin.