Gluconeogenesis Flashcards
When does glycogenolysis happen? When does gluconeogenesis happen?
When blood glucose starts running lower, the liver performs glycogenolysis mostly.
When glycogen storage starts running low (e.g. sleep), then glycogenolysis falls and gluconeogenesis rises.
Gluconeogenesis
Formation of glucose from non-carbohydrate precursors
Reverses glycolysis
____ is performed in the cytosol of every cell of our body.
___ mainly occurs in hepatocytes, but also kidney and intestinal epithelium.
Glycolysis in every cell
Gluconeogenesis in liver, kidney, and intestine
How does gluconeogenesis reverse the pyruvate kinase rxn? Where?
- Pyruvate –<strong><em>pyruvate carboxylase, ATP, biotin</em></strong>–> oxaloacetic acid
- Ligase rxn
- Oxaloacetic acid –<strong>PEP carboxykinase (PEPCK), GTP, CO2</strong> –> PEP
both occur int he mitochondria + cytosol
How to reverse the PFK-1 rxn? Where?
F16BP –FBPase-1 +Pi<strong><em> </em></strong>–> F6P
Cytosol
How to reverse the hexokinase reaction? Where?
Glucose-6-phosphate –glucose-6-phosphatase + Pi–> Glucose
Occurs in the ER
Muscle cells perform ___, but it doesn’t affect BLOOD glucose because it’s used internally.
Muscle cells CANNOT perform ___
Can perform glycogenlysis
CANNOT perform gluconeogenesis
Which two gluconeogenesis-specific enzymes do adipose cells have that allow them to perofrm glyceroneogenesis??
Pyruvate carboxylaes
PEPCK
Reaction of gluconeogenesis
2 pyruvate + 4ATP + 2GTP + 2NADH + 2H+ + 2H2O
–>
Glucose + 4ADP + 2GDP + 6Pi + 2NAD+
2 ATP were consumed in the pyruvate carboxylase rxn and 2 GTP were consumed in the following PEPCk reaction.
What about the other 2 ATP used in gluconeogenesis?
What about the 2 NADH that got used?
2ATP comes from reversing the phosphoglycerate kinase reaction (which generated 2 ATP in glycolysis)
2NADH comes from reversing the the glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase reaction (generated 2NADH in glycolysis)
Gluconeogenic precursors:
Ala (most common)
Glycerol
Other aa (e.g. Asp)
Lactic acid
- Ala -> pyruvate
- Glycerol -> DHAP
- Other aa (e.g. Asp) -> oxaloacetate
- (Bypasses ATP hydrolyis of pyruvate carboxylase)
- Lactic acid -> pyruvate
How to hormones mediate changes to enzymes?
Protein covalent modifications
Allosteric control mechanisms
Glucose-6-phosphatase and hexokinase are both active in hepatic cells. How do liver cells regulate their opposing pahtways?
Glucokinase is in the cytosol
Glucose-6-phosphatase is in the ER
When glucose is low, where is glucokinase? where is glucose 6phosphatase?
Glucokinase is sequestered to the nucleus
Glucose 6-phosphtase is active in the ER lumen
When [glucose 6 phosphate] rises in the cell
It’s transported into the ER by a glucose 6-phosphate transporter to be hydrolyzed by the phosphatase to produce glucose.
Transported back to the cytosol, then out to the blood if blood glucose is lower than cytosol