Biochem of the GI tract Flashcards
What is the enzyme in the mouth that aids in digesting starch? Lipids?
alpha amylase
Lingual lipase
What is the zymogen secreted by the stomach that aids in food digestion and turning on other enzymes?
Pepsinogen
What activates pepsinogen?
low pH
What cells in the stomach secrete pepsinogen?
Chief cells
What is the enzyme secreted by the pancreas that is secreted in its active form?
Pancreatic alpha amylase
What are the two mineral chemical secreted by the pancrase?
NaCl
NaHCO3
The liver synthesizes bile acids from what?
Cholesterol
Where are the enzymes that convert carbs and proteins into absorbable low molecular weight molecules?
Brush border of the intestines
What form must carbs be in to be absorbed into the intestines?
Monosaccharides
What are the two monomers of sucrose?
Glu and fructose
What are the two monomers of lactose?
Galactose and glucose
What are the two monomers in amylose? What is the linkage here?
Galactose and glucose
alpha 1,4
What are the monomers in amylopectin? What is the linkage here?
Glucose glucose
alpha 1,4 and alpha 1,6 branches
What are the monomers in glycogen? What is the linkage here?
Glc-glc
alpha 1,6
What are the monomers in cellulose? What is the linkage here?
glucose glucose
beta 1,4
Animal is to glycogen as plant is to what?
Amylopectin
Where does starch digestion begin? What enzymes? What are the bonds that are being broken?
Mouth
salivary endosaccharidase alpha-amylase
non-terminal alpha 1,4 linkages
What limits the digestion of molecules in the mouth?
Need acidic condition of the stomach to denature stuffs
What are the ends products of pancreatic amylase digestion? (3)
Maltose
Maltotriose
Alpha-limit dextrans
Why can’t cellulose be digested?
Humans lack the beta-1,4 enzyme
Lactose is hydrolyzed into glucose and galactose by what enzyme?
Lactase
Maltose is hydrolyzed to two glucose molecules by what enzyme?
Maltase
Sucrose is split into glucose and fructose by what?
Sucrase/isomaltase complex
What is the transporter in the small intestines that picks up glucose? What the means by which this happens?
SGLT-1
Na/glucose transporter that utilizes Na gradient from Na/K ATPase