Explain why adding protons to the treated mitochondria increase ATP synthesis?

Because protons are no longer being used to power the ATP synthase, the proton gradient is not dissipated; the increasingly steep proton gradient makes it increasingly difficult for the electron-transport proteins to pump protons out of the matrix, and electron transport quickly stops.

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