UC Davis Researchers Reveal Molecular Structures Involved in Plant Respiration (VIDEO)

University of California - Davis

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All plants and animals respire, releasing energy from food. At the cellular level, this process occurs in the mitochondria. But there are differences at the molecular level between how plants and animals extract energy from food sources. Now UC Davis researchers Maria Maldonado and James Letts provide the first-ever, atomic-level, 3D structure of the largest protein complex (complex I) involved in the plant mitochondrial electron transport chain.

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Maria Maldonado et al, UC Davis

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