INTRODUCTION
The mitochondria is a very important organelle in the plant cell because it carries out very important cellular reactions in the cell like the Krebs cycle and oxidative phosphorylation which is how the plants produce ATP from the pyruvate produced through glycolysis (Meyer and Millar, 2008). Glycolysis produces a net of 2 ATP for the plant which is not enough for the cell to function while the Krebs cycle and electron transport chain produces a net of 36 ATP which makes the mitochondria the power house of the plant cell (Meyer and Millar, 2008). Mitochondrion is also an important organelle because it contains its own genome and can be transcribed …show more content…
In addition isolated mitochondria are studied to identify their proteomes and how development affects the proteome (Labbe et al., 2008). Study of isolated mitochondria has great application in the pharmaceutical industry through the discovery that some mitochondrial proteins stimulate apoptosis in the cells (Wang, 2001). This research has aided in finding cure for cancer and Parkinson’s disease among many other diseases (Labbe et al., 2008). Also, many drugs produced contain drug classes that can inhibit the function of mitochondria by preventing or altering a stage in ATP production in the Krebs cycle or electron transport chain or acting as an inhibitor of an enzyme that carries out a certain reaction in citric acid cycle or ETC (Dykens and Will, 2007). These drugs are therefore pretested …show more content…
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