Krebs Cycle And Electron Transport Chain

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Mitochondria are membrane bound organelles which produce energy in the form of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) during cellular respiration (Vakifahmetoglu-Norberg, Ouchida & Norberg, 2017). The link reaction, Krebs cycle and electron transport chain (ETC) are the three main events which take place in the mitochondria. The Krebs cycle is a metabolic pathway which occurs in the mitochondrial matrix; where glucose, amino acids and fatty acids which have been converted to acetyl coenzyme A are oxidised to form ATP and carbon dioxide during aerobic respiration (Sajnani et al. , 2017). The enzyme, succinate dehydrogenase (SDH), is present in the mitochondria of eukaryotic organisms. SDH is an iron-sulfur, transmembrane protein which protrudes into the