Chapter 12: Glycolysis and Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Flashcards
Name the complex forms of which most of our food is found in?
forms such as starch (amylose and amylopectin) and the disaccharides sucrose and lactose
What enzyme in the mouth starts breakdown of starch?
salivary amylase randomly hydrolyses the starch polymers to dextrins
In the intestines dextrins are hydrolyzed to what disaccharides?
maltose and isomaltose
Maltase cleaves maltose into what monosaccharides?
2 glucoses
Isomaltase cleaves isomaltose to what monosaccharides?
2 glucoses
Lactase cleaves lactose to what monosaccharides?
glucose and galactose
Sucrase cleaves sucrose to what monosaccharides?
glucose and fructose
What transporter takes up glucose into the mucosal cells?
GLUT
What is the normal glucose concentration in peripheral blood?
4-6 mM (70-110 mg/dL)
In the pancreas what serves as the glucose sensors?
GLUT 2 along with glucokinase
GLUT 4 translocation to the cell membrane in skeletal muscle is stimulated by exercise. This effect, is independent of insulin and involves what enzyme?
5’AMP activated kinase
What tissues is GLUT 1 found in?
Most tissue (brain, red cells)
What tissues is GLUT 2 found in?
Liver and pancreatic B-cells
What tissues is GLUT 3 found in?
Most tissues
What tissues is GLUT 4 found in?
skeletal muscle and adipose tissue
Which GLUT receptor has insulin-stimulated glucose uptake, stimulated by exercise in the skeletal muscle
GLUT 4
Insulin secretion by pancreatic B-cells is biphasic. What is meant by this statement?
glucose stimulates the first phase (within 15 minutes) with release of preformed insulin. The second phase (several hours) involves insulin synthesis at the gene level.
What is the rate limiting enzyme and main control point of glycolysis?
PFK-1
Which has the higher Km glucokinase or hexokinase
glucokinase
Where is glucokinase primarily found?
in hepatocytes and pancreatic B-cells along with GLUT-2, acts as the glucose sensor
Insulin stimulates and glucagon inhibits PFK-1 in hepatocytes by an indirect mechanism involving what?
PFK-2 and fructose 2,6 bisphosphate (F2,6-BP)
How does insulin activate PFK-2?
activates it via the tyrosine kinase receptor and activation of phosphatases, which converts a tiny amount of fructose 6- phosphate to fructose 2,6 bisphosphate (F2,6-BP) which in turn activates PFK-1 leading to stimulation of glycolysis
How does glucagon inhibit PFK 2?
via cAMP dependent protein kinase A lowering F2,6-BP and thereby inhibiting PFK-1