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To carry out activities for one day, an adult person weighing 70 kg uses ATP equivalent to about
A 4.18 kilojoules of energy
B 30 kilojoules of energy
C 30 g of ATP
D 70 kg of ATP
Oxidising about 500 g of fuel (carbohydrate, fat and protein) generates about 70 kg of ATP; 10,000 kJ
If your heart is beating faster in an exam because of stress, it can obtain extra ATP from your leg muscles, which don’t need much because you are sitting down.
TRUE or FALSE
ATP is not transferred between tissues; it is made in the tissue that needs it
ATP is NOT an energy store
Fuels are stored: glycogen and fat
We need fuel stores
We can’t carry around our body weight in
ATP…
To address this, we take 2 to 3 meals a day, So:
• How do we get energy between meals?
• E.g., How do we get energy during the night?
• We must store fuel from meals and then access the stored energy as we need it
Why do we need fuels stores?
Because the body cannot store ATP
ATP must be made in the cell
• at the time it is needed
• at the rate it is needed
• by oxidising fuels
ATP must be made in the cell ….
• at the time it is needed
• at the rate it is needed
• by oxidising fuels
What we physiologically need fuel stores for:
• to maintain a supply of glucose between meals
• to provide immediate fuel for increased activity
• for long periods when food intake may be inadequate
Fuel reserves for a normal 70kg subject
- only reason there is glycogen in the blood is for transport
What are Tryglycerides stored as ?
stored as fat droplets in adipose tissue
What happens to excess dat and carbs form diet?
excess fat and carbohydrate from diet can be
converted to stored fat
Humans have ______ fat stores
unlimited fat stores
Tri-acyl-glycerol structure
thr ee - fatty acids - glycerol
- attached through ester linkage to glycerol back bone
Glycerol as an hydroxyl group that can easily be etifled to form a
Triclyglycerol (between acidic fatty acid end and glycerol)
- fatty acid chains are hydrophobic
- in this example there is a kink caused by the double bond
- the kink prevents the lipids form packing together
Palmo(toleic) tells us…
There is a double bond
Scanning micrograph of white adipose tissue
Electron micrograph of white adipose tissue
In adipose tissue cells Triaglycerol pushes cell organelles to the side
Synthesis of triacylglycerols
• fatty acids from chylomicrons
• glycerol backbone from glucose
• activation of fatty acids to acyl-CoA
• esterification of acyl groups to glycerol 3-phosphate
• stimulated by insulin
Synthesis of triacylglycerols is stimulated by
Insulin
Fatty acids getting into adipose tissue from chylomicrons
- chylomicrons arrive at the capillaries of the adipose tissue and then lipase (membrane bound) cleaves the fatty acid off the glycerol back bone
- lipase is also activated by insulin
- cleaved fatty acids are then deposited inside the adipose tissue
- remenants of chylomicrons go back into the circulation (liver) where they are degraded and recycled
- (fatty acid then put back into TG for storage)
Chylomicrons are essential for
Moving Fattty acids in the form tryclyglycerol to the adipose
Lipoprotein lipase found in in _______ of ______
Capillaries
Adipose tissue
L ipoprotein lipase in capillaries of adipose tissue is stimulated by
Insulin
Fatty acids are _____ so they ______ flow through the membrane
Hydrophobic
Freely
Schematic diagram of the insulin receptor
- insulin binds to alpha subunit and causes a conformational change which is relayed through the beta subunits to activate kinase activity
- kinase takes a phosphate from ATP and attaches it to a hydroxyl Group on the tyrosine amino acid (phosphorylation of hydroxyl group
- the left tyrosine phosportlyates the tyrosine on the right, right tyrosine phosphorylates the tyrosine on the left
Insulin helps activate tyrosine kinase which then does what …. For fatty acids inside the cell and lipase in the membrane
- stimulates reactivating of the fatty acids inside the adipose tissue
- (also helps activate the lipase in the membrane to cleave the carry acids off the chylomicron)
What bond attaches between glycerol and fatty acid
Ester bond