NADH - nicotinamide
adenine dinucleotide
cyto c1 - cytochrome
c1
cyto c - cytochrome c
cyto a - cytochrome a
cyto a3 - cytochrome a3
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The
mitochondrial electron transport chain is a series of
enzymes and coenzymes in the crista membrane, each of which is reduced by the preceding coenzyme, and in turn reduces the next, until finally the protons and electrons that have entered the chain from either NADH or reduced flavin reduce oxygen to water. |
The alignment of the ETC components is via their redox potential from the more electronegative to the more electropositive redox potentials. |