{"id":208478,"date":"2025-03-12T12:28:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T17:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/rewriting-textbooks-new-findings-challenge-decades-of-mitochondrial-biology"},"modified":"2025-03-12T12:28:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T17:28:31","slug":"rewriting-textbooks-new-findings-challenge-decades-of-mitochondrial-biology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/rewriting-textbooks-new-findings-challenge-decades-of-mitochondrial-biology","title":{"rendered":"Rewriting Textbooks: New Findings Challenge Decades of Mitochondrial Biology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rewriting-textbooks-new-findings-challenge-decades-of-mitochondrial-biology.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A study conducted by researchers from the University of S\u00e3o Paulo sheds light on new discoveries about the mechanisms of oxidative phosphorylation in ATP production. Recent findings highlight the involvement of sodium in mitochondrial respiration.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In an article published in <em><i>Trends in Biochemical Sciences<\/i><\/em>, Alicia Kowaltowski, a full professor at the University of S\u00e3o Paulo\u2019s Institute of Chemistry (IQ-USP) in Brazil, calls for a \u201crewriting\u201d of textbooks regarding the location of the electron transport chain in mitochondria and the role of sodium in mitochondrial respiration.<\/p>\n<p>Kowaltowski is also a member of the Research Center for Redox Processes in Biomedicine (Redoxoma), a Research, Innovation, and Dissemination Center (RIDC) funded by FAPESP and based at IQ-USP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study conducted by researchers from the University of S\u00e3o Paulo sheds light on new discoveries about the mechanisms of oxidative phosphorylation in ATP production. Recent findings highlight the involvement of sodium in mitochondrial respiration. In an article published in Trends in Biochemical Sciences, Alicia Kowaltowski, a full professor at the University of S\u00e3o Paulo\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}