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The unambiguous identification of the primary energized state remains the major problem of contemporary bioenergetics. During the last thirty years, four major hypotheses have been put forward to describe the mechanism of oxidative phosphorylation and related membrane processes, viz. the chemical, chemiosmotic, localised proton and conformational hypotheses [26].
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Jones, C.W. (1981). Mechanisms of oxidative phosphorylation. In: Biological Energy Conservation. Outline Studies in Biology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9703-2_5
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