Electron Transport

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The process by which ELECTRONS are transported from a reduced substrate to molecular OXYGEN. (From Bennington, Saunders Dictionary and Encyclopedia of Laboratory Medicine and Technology, 1984, p270)

Descriptor ID	D004579
MeSH Number(s)	G02.111.248 G03.295.531.403 G03.493.350
Concept/Terms	Electron Transport Electron Transport Transport, Electron Respiratory Chain Respiratory Chain Chain, Respiratory Chains, Respiratory Respiratory Chains

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Biological Sciences [G]
Chemical Phenomena [G02]
Biochemical Phenomena [G02.111]
Electron Transport [G02.111.248]
Metabolism [G03]
Energy Metabolism [G03.295]
Oxidation-Reduction [G03.295.531]
Electron Transport [G03.295.531.403]
Metabolic Networks and Pathways [G03.493]
Electron Transport [G03.493.350]

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1998	0	1	1
2001	1	1	2
2002	0	2	2
2003	1	0	1
2005	0	2	2
2006	0	1	1
2008	0	2	2
2009	0	2	2
2010	0	2	2
2012	0	2	2
2014	0	1	1
2015	1	1	2
2016	1	1	2
2017	0	2	2
2018	1	3	4
2019	1	1	2
2020	1	0	1
2022	0	3	3
2023	0	1	1
2024	0	1	1
2025	0	2	2
2026	0	1	1

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Tan AMZ, Celik C, Lee SYT, Veleba M, Manzano CS, Abdul RMK, Thibault G, Kline KA. Enterococcus faecalis redox metabolism activates the unfolded protein response to impair wound healing. Sci Adv. 2026 Jan 16; 12(3):eaeb5297.

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Wei RJ, Kirmaier C, Holten D, Kern J, Laible PD, Hanson DK, Ranepura G, Uddin MR, Ortiz-Soto J, Gunner MR. Why the electron chooses one of two symmetry-related paths in the type II bacterial photosynthetic reaction centers. Phys Chem Chem Phys. 2025 Nov 26; 27(46):24816-24826.

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Ho FK, Lam LN, Matysik A, Watts TD, Wong JJ, Chong KKL, Choo PY, Tolar J, Low PM, Chua ZS, Paxman JJ, Heras B, Marsili E, Ajo-Franklin CM, Kline KA. Role of sortase-assembled Ebp pili in Enterococcus faecalis adhesion to iron oxides and its impact on extracellular electron transfer. Microbiol Spectr. 2025 Mar 04; 13(3):e0233724.

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Uddin MR, Khaniya U, Gupta C, Mao J, Ranepura GA, Wei RJ, Ortiz-Soto J, Singharoy A, Gunner MR. Finding the E-channel proton loading sites by calculating the ensemble of protonation microstates. Biochim Biophys Acta Bioenerg. 2025 01 01; 1866(1):149518.

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McGuinness KN, Fehon N, Feehan R, Miller M, Mutter AC, Rybak LA, Nam J, AbuSalim JE, Atkinson JT, Heidari H, Losada N, Kim JD, Koder RL, Lu Y, Silberg JJ, Slusky JSG, Falkowski PG, Nanda V. The energetics and evolution of oxidoreductases in deep time. Proteins. 2024 Jan; 92(1):52-59.

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Wei RJ, Khaniya U, Mao J, Liu J, Batista VS, Gunner MR. Tools for analyzing protonation states and for tracing proton transfer pathways with examples from the Rb. sphaeroides photosynthetic reaction centers. Photosynth Res. 2023 Apr; 156(1):101-112.

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Andersen EME, Wang H, Khoo JSH, Cerda JF, Koder RL. Oxidation-reduction and photophysical properties of isomeric forms of Safranin. PLoS One. 2022; 17(6):e0265105.

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Prince RC, Dutton PL, Gunner MR. The aprotic electrochemistry of quinones. Biochim Biophys Acta Bioenerg. 2022 08 01; 1863(6):148558.

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Blake RC, White RA. In situ absorbance measurements: a new means to study respiratory electron transfer in chemolithotrophic microorganisms. Adv Microb Physiol. 2020; 76:81-127.

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Jang S, Javadov S. OPA1 regulates respiratory supercomplexes assembly: The role of mitochondrial swelling. Mitochondrion. 2020 03; 51:30-39.

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