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The initial state 3 respiration rate of potato mitochondria is markedly depressed, or attenuated. With several consecutive state 3/state 4 cycles the state 3 rate rises to a maximum, while the state 4 rate remains essentially unchanged. The development of state 3 respiration has been termed conditioning. An analysis of the process has indicated that state 4 is a better conditioner than state3 per se. Conditioning is also attained by preincubation in state 2, or under conditions designated pseudostate 2, wherein ADP is present, with or without oligomycin, and inorganic phosphate is absent. ADP implements the conditioning process in the absence of oxidative phosphorylation. The action of ADP in its secondary or modulator role appears to be positively cooperative, the kinetics of ADP involvement being second-order. S0.5 for ADP as a modulator of the conditioning process is approximately 62 μM, a value in excess of the K s for ADP in oxidative phosphorylation. Electron transport is indispensable for conditioning, and it is suggested that conditioning and ATP synthesis represent alternative uses of respiratory energy. It is further suggested that to some extent state 4 underlies state 3.
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Raison, J.K., Laties, G.G. & Crompton, M. The role of state 4 electron transport in the activation of state 3 respiration in potato mitochondria. J Bioenerg Biomembr 4, 409–422 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01648968
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