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The 55 pages that link to Mitochondria, each with the reason it gives.

• EukaryoteBroader topic: Its bacterial ancestry offers a key clue to how complex cells evolved.

• Cellular respirationRelated: It houses most aerobic respiration in eukaryotic cells.

• Oxidative stressRelated: Electron transport in mitochondria can generate reactive oxygen species.

• Endosymbiotic theoryBroader topic: Mitochondria are the best-established organelles explained by an ancient bacterial partnership.

• Adenosine triphosphateRelated: Mitochondria produce large amounts of ATP through oxidative phosphorylation.

• Oxidative phosphorylationNarrower topic: Its inner membrane houses the respiratory chain and ATP synthase.

• MetabolismRelated: Mitochondria house major stages of aerobic metabolism in eukaryotes.

• ATPNarrower topic: Mitochondria are a major site of ATP production in many cells.

• Citric acid cycleNarrower topic: In eukaryotes, most cycle reactions occur in the mitochondrial matrix, with succinate dehydrogenase in the inner membrane.

• SymbiosisBroader topic: Its bacterial ancestry is a landmark case of endosymbiotic evolution.

• TorporBroader topic: Changes in cellular energy production help sustain the low metabolic state.

• MyoglobinRelated: Myoglobin supplies oxygen near mitochondria that consume it during aerobic energy production.

• Beta oxidationNarrower topic: Most fatty acid beta oxidation in eukaryotic cells occurs in mitochondria.

• Cyanide poisoningBroader topic: Cyanide chiefly disrupts energy production within this organelle.

• Electron transport chainRelated: Its inner membrane contains the best-known eukaryotic electron transport chain.

• ATP synthaseRelated: Its inner membrane houses ATP synthase and the respiratory proton gradient.

• OrganelleBroader topic: Mitochondria show how an organelle's compartments support energy production.

• Cardiac muscleRelated: Cardiomyocytes rely heavily on mitochondrial ATP to sustain continuous work.

• Aerobic respirationRelated: It is the principal site of aerobic respiration in eukaryotic cells.

• ChemiosmosisBroader topic: Its inner membrane supports respiratory proton gradients and ATP synthesis.

• Lynn MargulisBroader topic: Its bacterial ancestry is a principal claim of Margulis’s modern endosymbiotic theory.

• Plant cellRelated: Plant cells use mitochondria to release energy from sugars, including sugars made by photosynthesis.

• Primary endosymbiosisRelated: Mitochondria provide a parallel example of bacterial ancestry within eukaryotic cells.

• SteroidogenesisRelated: The first and some final steroidogenic reactions occur in mitochondria.

• EukaryogenesisBroader topic: Mitochondria preserve evidence of the bacterial contribution to eukaryotic origins.

• Mitochondrial inheritanceNarrower topic: Mitochondrial DNA is housed in this organelle.

• Brown adipose tissueNarrower topic: Brown adipocytes contain many mitochondria, which give the tissue its color and power heat production.

• SpermatozoonRelated: Mitochondria in the sperm midpiece support the energy demands of movement.

• PeroxisomeCompared with: Both organelles oxidize fatty acids, but mitochondria couple oxidation to ATP production.

• HeteroplasmyNarrower topic: Mitochondria contain the genomes whose sequence mixtures define heteroplasmy.

• AdipocyteRelated: Mitochondria support energy use and heat production in specialized adipocytes.

• Asgard archaeaRelated: Mitochondrial origins are the bacterial half of models connecting Asgard hosts to eukaryogenesis.

• Cell nucleusCompared with: Unlike the nucleus, mitochondria retain a small genome of their own.

• Eukaryotic cellBroader topic: Its energy production supports the cell’s many compartmentalized activities.

• Endomembrane systemCompared with: Unlike endomembrane compartments, mitochondria are not considered part of the system.

• LeishmaniaRelated: The kinetoplast is a specialized DNA-containing region within this organelle.

• EuglenozoaRelated: Euglenozoan mitochondria share structural traits used to recognize the group.

• Pyruvate carboxylaseRelated: In animals, pyruvate carboxylase operates in the mitochondrial matrix.

• Coenzyme Q10Narrower topic: The inner mitochondrial membrane is a major site of coenzyme Q10 activity.

• Thomas Cavalier-SmithRelated: Mitochondrial presence and loss figured prominently in his proposed eukaryote relationships.

• ExcavataRelated: Mitochondrial forms and losses complicate comparisons among excavate lineages.

• KinetoplastidNarrower topic: Kinetoplastid DNA is concentrated within the group’s single large mitochondrion.

• Leigh syndromeNarrower topic: Most known causes disrupt proteins that function in or support these organelles.

• NiclosamideBroader topic: Mitochondrial energy production is a principal target of niclosamide’s uncoupling action.

• Albert ClaudeBroader topic: Claude’s fractionation work helped isolate mitochondria for biochemical investigation.

• EukaryotaBroader topic: Mitochondria are widespread eukaryotic organelles with a bacterial evolutionary origin.

• Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndromeRelated: Energy metabolism is studied in ME/CFS, but mitochondrial dysfunction is not a settled explanation.

• SymbiogenesisBroader topic: Mitochondria are descendants of bacterial endosymbionts incorporated into ancestral cells.

• BerberineRelated: Berberine can affect mitochondrial respiration, linking cellular energy production to its metabolic effects.

• Barth syndromeNarrower topic: Barth syndrome affects a lipid of the mitochondrial inner membrane.