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COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY B-BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 224, Issue -, Pages 185-194Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpb.2017.11.006
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Proline; Proline dehydrogenase; Insects; Energetics; Mitochondria; Electron transport system; Glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase
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- NSERC Discovery Grants
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The study of glycolysis, the TCA cycle, and oxidative phosphorylation in animals has yielded a wealth of information about bioenergetics. Less is known about how animals use fuels other than glucose and less characterized enzymes that are also used to provide electrons to the electron transport system. It has become clear that bioenergetic flexibility is employed by a wide variety of animals in order to successfully grow, maintain cells, and reproduce, and has contributed to the exploitation of new environments and ecological niches through evolution. In most cases, the discovery of these alternative fuels and non-classical pathways is relatively recent, but is starting to call into question long believed paradigms about the diversity of animal bioenergetics. We present several specific examples of these alternatives and the animals that use them and present some implications for animal mitochondrial physiology research.
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