Alcohol

Question 1

What is the first step in fructose metabolism and what is a defect here?

Answer 1

Fructokinase phsphorylation–essential fructosuria

Question 2

what is the second step in fructose metabolism and what is the associated defeect

Answer 2

Aldolase B converts F6P to glyceraldehyde and DHA– build up of phosphate

Question 3

What is the first steep in galactose metabolism

Answer 3

Galactose–>Gal1P via galoctokinase

Question 4

What is the second step in galactose metabolism

Answer 4

activation via attachment to UDP

Question 5

What is the third step of galactose metabolism

Answer 5

UDP-galactose conversion to UDP-glucose via an epimerase

Question 6

What is classic galactosemia a defect isn

Answer 6

galactose-1p uridyl transferase (again, stuck as Gal-1-p

Question 7

What is the function of glucouronic acid

Answer 7

it binds things that would otherwise be difficult to excrete

Question 8

Is NAD+ or NADH a product of alcohol metabolism

Answer 8

NADH

Question 9

Why can alcohol be given to people who have consumed methanol

Answer 9

it competitively inhibits alcohol dehydrogenase and acetaldehyde dehydrogenase