Gluconeogeniss Flashcards
Possible sources of gluconeogensis
And explain pathway of each to glucose
AA (feeding into the Kerbs cycle and directlyinto pyruvate), lactate pyruvate, propoionate, and glycerol. ALso galactose and fructose
Exception leucine and lysine CANNOT be use for gluconeogensis (because these two can’t yield pyruvate or OAA) and CANNOT use regular even number fatty acids because The acetyl CoA they form can’t make pyruvate
Why are children more susceptible to hypoglycemia than adults?
What children are most susceptible?
Because they have a large brain/body ratio and the brain is using disproportionally amounts of glucose.
Newborns have a limited capacity for ketogenesis because transport of long fatty acids into liver is poorly developed, so they have very little glucose to spare by using ketone bodies.
Also newborns can’t synthesis glucose from lactate and alanine because they rate limiting step require phosephoenolpyruvate carboxykinase which is low in the first hours after birht
Premature and smlal for gestintatioanl age are most suseptible because their liver storage of glycogen is smaller
Explain the recyclnig of the end products of glycolysis
Peripheral tissue release ALANINE (Alanine Cycle pyruvate from muscles) and LACTATE (-Cori Cycle RBC, muscles) and they return to the liver by blood where they enter gluconeogenesis
What is happening in the cori cycle
Lactate (end product of glycolysis) travels to the liver where is it converted to glucose and sent out into blood stream for use
Not actually a cycle because many organs (all lactate producing cells) are invovled
Equation for GLuconeogensis
2-lactate + 6 ATP + 6H2O—> glucose + 6 ADP + 6 Pi
Note that it take SIX ATPS for gluconeogensis from lactate
What enzymes aren’t the same in glycolysis and gluconeogensis? What replaces those enzymes
- Hexokinase- glucose 6 phosphate
- PFK-1– Fructose 1, 6 biphosphatase
- Pyruvate kinase- pyruvate carboxylas
and an additional one that take pyruvate to Oxaloactetae is PEP carboxykinase
What are the first 3 steps of gluconeogenesis from lactate
1 Lactate is converted to pyruvate by Lactate dehydorgenase making NADH which is needed later (this is just reversed in anerobic glycolyssi)
- Pyruvate wants to become 2-phosphenolpyruvate by cant do so directly so we use 2 ATPs (4/glucose) to to convery pyruvate to 2- oxaloacetate with pyruvate carboxylase then the Oxaloacetate becomes 2-Phosphophenolpyruvate (PEP) by the PEP carboxykinase
Majr difference in going from phoshenolpyruvate to pyruvate and the oppoiste
In glycolysis it’s a direct step and you producse ONE ATP
In gluconeogenosis you have 2 other steps and use FOUR ATP/glucose
MEchanism of pyrvuate to PEP
- Cytosolic pyruvate enters mitochondria b/c that where pyruvate carboxylase is
- Pyrvuate—- pyrvuate carboxylase(use biotion as cofactors for transfer of CO2—> Oxaloacetate-CO2
- Oxaloactete can’t pass the membrance so it’s converted to malate
- In cytosol malate back to OAA and OAA—-PEP—> Pyruvate
What is special about the steps fom PEP to fructose 1-6 biphophate…list them with enzyme
They are just the reverse of glycolysis
PEP—- enolase–> 2- phospholycerate—- phosphyglyerate mutase—>3- phosphoglycerate— phosphoglycerate kinase— 1-3 BPG
Last three steps of gluconeogenosis
Fructose 1-6 biphosphate— fructose 1, 6 bisphosphate–-> Fructose 6-P (irreversible hydrolysis)
Fructose 6-P–-phosphoglycoisomerase--> Glucose 6-P (reversible)
Glucose 6-P– Glucose 6-phosphatase—> glucose (this is irreversible hydrolytic reaction)
What is imporatnt about amonia and gluconeogensis
Liver cells need to be able to get rid of amonia so the urea cycle is always run when gluconeogensis is running to remove ammonia to make urea (which we can secrete)
Where does Oxacloacetae come from? What step is it important in?
Oxalacetate Intermediate from pyruvate to PEP in gluconeogensis
Comes from different AA and odd 0carbon fatty acids after they are chopped off by beta oxidation
What steps require ATP/GTP in glucogenosis
Where does this energy come from
Pyruvate to OAA
OAA to PEP
2 phosphoglycerate– to 1-3 phosphoglycerate
Getting energy from Beta oxidation- from fatty acids
Explain what happens when pyruvate carboxylase deficieincy symptoms
No gluconeogenisis (between pyruvate and OAA)- hypoglycemia
But also needed in TCA (running from fatty acid normally but when enzyme is gone poor energy gerneration
Symptoms
- HIgh pyruvate- can’t go into gluconeogensis so it backs alanine up
- So alanine is high
- Now pyruvate can’t do to gluconeogensis so it goes to lactic prouction which further inhibits gluconeogensis because it’s using the lactate
Treatment of this is limited until the enzyme is picked
Where is glucose 6 phosphotase located?
What organs and what organelle?
In the ER of liver and kidney.
- A translcocase is require to put the G6P enzyme from the cytosol to the ER
- then GLUT-7 takes the glucose out from the ER to cytosol
- and then GLUT 2 from cytosol to membrane.
