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Relationship: 1782
Title
Mitochondrial Complex IV inhibition leads to Decrease in mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation
Upstream event
Downstream event
Key Event Relationship Overview
AOPs Referencing Relationship
AOP Name | Adjacency | Weight of Evidence | Quantitative Understanding | Point of Contact | Author Status | OECD Status |
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Mitochondrial complex inhibition leading to liver injury | adjacent | High | High | Wanda van der Stel (send email) | Under development: Not open for comment. Do not cite |
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Key Event Relationship Description
The initiation event is the reversibly or irreversibly interaction to any of the subunits in the mitochondrial complex I, III or IV.
Inhibition of complex I, III or IV leads to a reduction in proton gradient and therefore impair or completely prevent the production of mitochondrial membrane dependent ATP production.
Threshold relationship = The cell can cope with inhibition of the various mitochondrial complexes and the following decreased OXPHOS depending on the number of mitochondria affected. The more mitochondria within a cell are perturbed, the lower the concentration of available ATP will become. The cell can influence the threshold at which these low ATP levels will become lethal, for example by upregulating the number of available mitochondria (biogenesis).
Evidence Collection Strategy
Evidence Supporting this KER
Biological Plausibility
It is broadly accepted that complex inhibition leads to decreased mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation.
Deficiencies in complex I in patient leads to decreased activity of the complex