Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a progressive condition that affects the heart and lungs. It is characterized by abnormally high blood pressure (hypertension) in the pulmonary artery, the blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the lungs.
The Protein Complexes of the Electron Transport Chain. Many years of effort have been devoted to the study of the remarkable processes in the mitochondria. The electron transport chain is the final stage of aerobic respiration leading to the forming of ATP in the inner membrane of the mitochondrion. The emergent picture is that of coupled reactions through five protein structures associated with that inner membrane.
Electron transport and oxidative phosphorylation occur in the mitochondrion, the cell's power plant. The citric acid enzymes are housed there as is pyruvate dehydrogenase, enzymes for fatty acid oxidation, and all of the enzymes and proteins of the electron transport/oxidative phosphorylation system.eduction of molecular oxygen. Overview: The electron transport system (ETS) is a mechanism for capturing in the form of ATP, energy from the transfer of electrons from NADH and FADH2 to O2. During this process, the mitochondrion expels protons, creating a pH gradient across the mitochondrial membrane.