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which may be filled in the future as our knowledge on molecular machines advance,
especially with respect to the RNA and DNA varieties.
11.5 The Conformon Theory of Oxidative Phosphorylation
The molecular mechanism of oxidative phosphorylation described in Fig. 11.36 is
reproduced from (Ji 1974b, 1979). To the best of my knowledge, it is the most
comprehensive model of oxidation phosphorylation that accommodates most, if not
all, of the key experimental findings on mitochondria, including the phenomenon of
Fig. 11.36 The Madisonator - A molecular model of oxidative phosphorylation based on the
theory of conformons as energy and information carriers in bioploymers (Reproduced from Ji
1974b, 1979). For detailed explanations for individual steps, see text. The symbol * appearing in
Steps 1-5, e.g., AMP * , denotes conformons, i.e., the conformational strains of biopolymers
(or their ligands) carrying mechanical strains at sequence- or stereo-specific sites (Chap. 8)