[The mitochondrial carrier of adenylates controls ATP production in the physiological range of respiration rates].

The problem is considered concerning the amount of control exerted by different mitochondrial enzymes on oxidative phosphorylation. Using the data of Groen et al. (1982) it has been found that when the respiration rates for isolated mitochondria ranged from 30 to 50 per cent of that in state 3 (which is in apparent physiological range) the contribution of the adenine nucleotide translocator to the control of ATP production was no less than 90 per cent taking for 100 per cent the total contribution of all mitochondrial enzymes.