Glycolysis Flashcards
(361) What is the universal fuel for cells?
Glucose (which makes ATP later)
What is the principal pathway by which cells generate ATP from glucose?
Glycolysis (literall: sugar breakdown)
What does oxidation of glucose yield via glycolysis (net?)
2 ATP, 2 NADH
Does glycolysis occur in both aerobic and anaerobic conditions?
Yes
(365) Where does glycolysis take place?
Cytosol, located in all tissues
(367) Describe the preparatory phase
Glucose broken down into Glyceraldehyde 3 phosphate and DHAP, uses 2 ATP (net negative 2 ATP in this phase)
Describe ATP-generative phase
G3P converted to pyruvate, 4 ATP made, 2 NADH made
What enzyme phosphorylates glucose in the first rxn of glycolysis?
Hexokinase (remember from earlier we have 4 different isozymes depending on tissue)
Which step produces NADH?
The reaction of G3P to 1,3 BPG via G3P dehydrogenase
What steps generate ATP ?
Pyruvate kinase step, and phosphoglycerate kinase step
How many molecules of pyruvate are formed?
Two (remember we had two 3 carbon products of prepatory phase which each go into a phase of payoff to generate ATP,NADH)
(373) What is the commited step of glycolysis?
PFK-1
(375) During strenuous exercise in anaerobic glycolysis what is produced?
Lactic acid via lactate dehydrogenase (reduces pyruvate to lactate and replenishes depleted stores of NAD+ in tissues rapidly performing glycolysis)
(376) Under aerobic conditions what happens to pyruvate?
Completely oxideized via TCA and ETC to carbon dioxide and water
What is the cori cycle?
Lactate secreted into blood is taken up by liver and oxidized back to pyruvate, pyruvate goes back to liver for gluconeogenesis
What is the glycerol 3 phosphate shuttle?
(378) Cytosolic G3P DH takes electrons from NADH and makes G3P from DHAP, G3P enters mitochondria and transfers electrons to FADH2 for transport to ETC via CoQ
What is the malate shuttle?
NADH gives electrons to oxaloacetate to produce malate which can be transferred to mitochondria, in mitochondria malate is transferred back to oxaloacetate regenerating mitochondrial NADH, in the mitochondria oxaloacetate is converted to aspartate and alphaketoglutarate by a transaminase that takes amino groups off glutamate and forms alpha ketoglutarate and aspartate Aspartate freely moves into cytosol via glutamate/aspartate transporter Aspartate is then deaminated again in the cytosol to convert back to oxaloacetate
Does glucagon activate glycolysis?
Yes (means we need glucose)
What are 5 sites of regulation in glycolysis?
HK, PFK1, Pyruvate kinase, PDH complex, glucose entry
What inhibits PFK-1? Activates it?
Inhibits: ATP,citrate Activates: F-2,6-BP, AMP
What inhibits hexokinase?
G6P
Describe the mechanism of F26BP allosteric control of PFK-1.
F26bisphosphate is usually formed from F16bisphosphate (same substrate for PFK-1 rxn) by a separate enzyme, PFK-2. This lets PFK1 know that there is still plenty of F16bisphosphate around and we should continue glycolysis. When blood sugars are low glucagon causes cAMP mediated cascade that results in phosphorylation of PFK2 and inactivation of its kinase domain that produces F26bisphosphate. Therefore we have no more F26bisphosphate around and PFK1 is no longer activated. Furthermore, the glucagon mediated cascade activates a separate domain on PFK2 that acts as F16bisphosphatase in gluconeogenesis (therefore increasing glucose in response to glucagon signal).
What inhibits pyruvate kinase? Activates?
ATP and F26BP/AMP , respectively
Does muscle pyruvate kinase have these allosteric sites for regulation?
No, not involved in glycolysis regulation, only wants to break down glycogen to give glucose to skeletal tissue that needs it
(366) what are the two phases of glycolysis?
Preparatory, payoff (energy required in preparatory, energy made in payoff)
(374) What are the three regulated enzymes in glycolysis?
Hexokinase, PFK-1, pyruvate kinase
Under what type of conditions are pyruvate and NADH used to form lactate? What rxn is used? What is the significance of this rxn?
anaerobic conditions
pyruvate and NADH form lactate via LDH rxn
-significance of LDH rxn is that NAD+ is regenerated for glycolysis
Under aerobic conditions, what are used to transfer electrons from glycolytic formed NADH into mitochondria? which is used for the reverse direction of gluconeogenesis and NAD+ is reformed?
malate shuttle and glycerol phosphate shuttle
malate shuttle
In anaerobic conditions, what reversibly reduces pyruvate to lactate? what is the result of this?
lactate dehydrogenase
regeneration of NAD+
Describe the energy utilizing phase of glycolysis: characters, setting, requirements, result
phosphorylation of glucose by
characters: HK or GK and PFK-1
setting: in cytosol
requirements: 2 mol of ATP
result: formation of fructose-1,6-biphosphate
Describe the energy generating phase of glycolysis: characters, setting, requirements, result
cleavage by aldolase, oxidation by glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase
setting: cytosol
result: 1. synthesis of 4 mol of ATP/ glucose from 2 substrate-level phosphorylation rxns
What are some other substrates for glycolysis other than glucose?
fructose, galactose, mannose, pentose sugars, glycerol