feeding, fasting and exercise WF Flashcards
overview of metabolism?
food digested, components absorbed and circulate in blood. taken up and metabolised in cells via catabolic pathways producing intermediates, CO2, energy, reducing power. energy used to do work, and in biosynthetic reactions (anabolic pathways). reducing power trapped in reduced coenzymes, also used for anabolic pathways.
food and anabolic reactions make building blocks for growth -> cell structures
ATP structure?
nucleotide - nitrogen containing base attached to a sugar (ribose) and to phosphate. ATP has 3 phosphates.
ATP and ADP?
terminal phosphate of ATP is hydrolysed off, the product is ADP and energy (60kJ/mol).
ATP +H20 = ADP + Pi
the role of ATP in energy use?
glucose, fatty acids, amino acids are broken down in various pathways to CO2. this is coupled with the synthesis of ADP +Pi to ATP. ATP then used for various purposes: muscle contraction, biosynthetic reactions, ion-pumping
what is NADP? what are its forms?
hydrogen (and electron) carrier.
oxidised form = NADP+
reduced form = NADPH
NADP+ + 2H = NADPH + H+
what does NADP act as?
currency of reducing power
principle pathway reducing NADP? how is it reoxidised?
pentose phosphate pathway reduces NADP.
reoxidised in various biosynthetic pathways:
-fatty acid synthesis
-cholesterol synthesis
-synthesis of deoxyribonucleotides
NADPH function?
important antioxidant
removing products of oxidation eg in red blood cells
what age group requires the most energy per kilo?
babies (lots of growing)
energy sources in a typical diet? (%)
carbohydrate = 49%
fat = 33%
protein = 14%
alcohol = [4]%
energy stores in the body?
plasma glucose
glycogen
triacylglycerol
protein
plasma glucose energy store: +/-?
+can be used by all tissues
-available store is very small
glycogen energy store: +/-?
+can be rapidly metabolised
+can supply energy anaerobically
-hydrated - weight limits size of energy store
triacylglycerol energy store: +/-?
+highly reduced so big energy yield
+not hydrated so no weight penalty
+the largest energy store in the body
-cannot be metabolised anaerobically - needs O2
-fatty acids cannot be used by the brain
protein energy store: +/-?
+big store (muscle is 40% of body mass)
+can be converted to glucose and ketone bodies
-all protein is functional (breakdown = loss of function)
mobilisation of energy stores - glucose?
glycogen broken down in glycogenolysis to glucose phosphate which is metabolised in the glycolytic pathway. metabolised to pyruvate (further oxidised to acetyl-CoA) or lactate (anaerobic)