HMP Shunt/Pentose Phosphate Pathway/Phosphogluconate Oxidative Pathway Flashcards
From glycolysis,
Glucose is phosphorylated to Glucose 6 phosphate and will continue to Citric Acid Cycle or be shunted to
Pentose phosphate Pathway
Purpose of pentose phosphate pathway
Generate reducing power (Produce NADPH)
Make five carbon sugars (pentoses) Ribose-5-phosphate
Alternate pathway of glycolysis
Generates NADPH for fatty acid synthesis
Supplies ribose phosphate for nucleic acid synthesis
Warburg-Dickens Pathway
Phosphogluconate shunt
HMP also functions for
interconversion of sugar
Location of HMP pathway
Cytosol
Rate limiting enzyme of HMP shunt
Involved in 1st part of the pathway
Irreversible, Rate limiting enzyme
Yields NADPH
Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase
G6PD
Reactants in Pentose Phosphate Pathway
NADP
Glucose-6-Phosphate
Products of HMP/PPP
NADPH (2 generated per glucose-6-phosphate)
Ribose (Pentose sugar)
Consists of two phases:
Oxidative phase
Non-oxidative phase
Oxidative phase involves generation of this product when glucose-6-phosphate is oxidized to ribose-5-phosphate
NADPH
Nonoxidative phase involves interconversion of 3,4,5,6 and 7 carbon sugars to synthesize
Pentose sugars
For biosynthesis of nucleotide
Production of excess ribose-5-phosphates
Interconversion of sugars
Sugars that interconvert
Pentose
Hexose
Triose
The main product of the pentose phosphate pathway is
Ribose-5-phosphate
(2) NADPH
Enzymes involved in oxidative phase
Glutathione reductase
Transketolase
Transaldolase
PPP is highly active in
Fatty acid and steroid synthesizing tissues
Tissues with active pentose phosphate pathways
RBCs for maintenance of reduced glutathione
Adrenal for steroid synthesis
Testes for steroid synthesis
Adipose for Fatty acid synthesis
Mammary gland for Fatty acid synthesis
Ovary for steroid synthesis
Liver for Fatty acid and cholesterol synthesis
What type of tissue require PPP?
Rapidly dividing cells (bone marrow, skin, intestinal mucosa)
Tissues that carry out extensive FA synthesis (liver, adipose, lactating mammary gland) or cholesterol and steroid synthesizing hormones (liver, adrenal glands, gonads)
Erythrocytes, lens and cornea
Rate limiting step/enzyme for regulation of HMP
Glucose-6Phosphate Dehydrogenase
Glucose 6 Phosphate dehydrogenase is inhibited by
NADPH
Glucose 6 phosphate dehydrogenase is induced by
insulin
NADP
Involved in the 1st part of the pathway
Irreversible
Rate limiting step
Step 1
by enzyme
Glucose 6-phosphate -> Glucono 1,5 lactone 6P by
Glucose 6 Phosphate Dehydrogenase
NAD+ -> NADPH
Requires thiamine
Needed for interconversions of sugars
Only thiamine enzyme in RBC
Shunts Ribose-5-phosphate to Fructose-6-phosphate
Transketolase
Functions of NADPH
Source of electrons for biosynthesis of fatty acids and steroids
Maintenance of supply of reduced glutathione to protect against ROS
Bactericidal activity in PMNs
Supply for liver microsomal CYP450 monooxygenase cycle
X linked Recessive
Results in hemolytic anemia and symptoms of chronic granulomatous disease
Female heterozygotes have increased resistance to malaria
Deficiency of the rate limiting step of PPP
G6PD deficiency
Glucose 6 Phosphate dehydrogenase
Used in biosynthesis to make fatty acids, steroids and cholesterol
Respiratory burst in WBC
Detoxification
Free radical protection
NADPH reducing power
Lacks respiratory/oxidative burst
Recurring granulomas and pyogenic infection
Chronic Granulomatous Disease