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22227 Ensembl ENSG00000109424 ENSMUSG00000031710 UniProt P25874 P12242 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_021833 NM_009463 RefSeq (protein) NP_068605 NP_033489 Location (UCSC) Chr 4: 140.56 – 140.57 Mb Chr 8: 84.02 – 84.03 Mb PubMed search Wikidata View/Edit Human View/Edit Mouse Thermogenin (called uncoupling protein by its discoverers and now known as uncoupling protein 1, or UCP1) is a mitochondrial ...
the complete release of respiratory control; the substitution of all coupled processes (ATP synthesis, transhydrogenation, reverse electron flow, active transport of cations, etc.) by a cyclic proton transport mediated by the uncoupler; the elimination of all protonic and cationic gradients generated across the mitochondrial or prokaryotic membrane
Mitochondrial uncoupling protein 3 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the UCP3 gene. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The gene is located in chromosome (11q13.4) with an exon count of 7 (HGNC et al., 2016) and is expressed on the inner mitochondrial membrane .
In practice the efficiency may be even lower because the inner membrane of the mitochondria is slightly leaky to protons. [11] Other factors may also dissipate the proton gradient creating an apparently leaky mitochondria. An uncoupling protein known as thermogenin is expressed in some cell types and is a channel that can transport protons.
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A second contributing factor is that cristae, the inner membranes of mitochondria, increase the surface area and therefore the amount of proteins in the membrane that assist in the synthesis of ATP. Along the electron transport chain, there are separate compartments, each with their own concentration gradient of H + ions, which are the power ...