Cytochrome c can be reduced directly by small molecules such as ascorbate (vitamin c). if ascorbate is added to an oxygenated solution containing purified cytochrome c and cytochrome oxidase, what would you predict would occur?

a. atp synthesis would occur.

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Jaelyn Sharp

Biology

26 March, 05:58

Cytochrome c can be reduced directly by small molecules such as ascorbate (vitamin c). if ascorbate is added to an oxygenated solution containing purified cytochrome c and cytochrome oxidase, what would you predict would occur?

a. atp synthesis would occur.

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Lillie Odom · Answer 1

I think what would occur is that Oxygen would be reduced to water. Cytochrome c is a large water soluble transmembrane protein complex found in bacteria and the mitochondrion of eukaryotes. It is a key player in the ATP synthesis in the mitochondria. In the electron transport it transfers electrons between complex II and complex IV.

Cytochrome c can be reduced directly by small molecules such as ascorbate (vitamin c). if ascorbate is added to an oxygenated solution containing purified cytochrome c and cytochrome oxidase, what would you predict would occur?a. atp synthesis would occur.

Cytochrome c can be reduced directly by small molecules such as ascorbate (vitamin c). if ascorbate is added to an oxygenated solution containing purified cytochrome c and cytochrome oxidase, what would you predict would occur?

a. atp synthesis would occur.