KROK 1 2017 – Question 116 · KROK (Medicine) · Biological Chemistry
Cytochrome oxidase is a hemeprotein that is an end component of the mitochondrial respiratory chain. What reaction is catalyzed with this enzyme?
- A. Adenosine triphosphate synthesis
- B. Transfer of reduced equivalents to ubiquinone
- C. Transfer of reduced equivalents to molecular oxygen
- D. Cytochrome splicing
- E. Cytochrome synthesis
Hint
Since this is the terminal component of the chain, ask where the electrons that reach it finally go.
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