Lecture 24 Flashcards
What is glyolysis?
The splitting of glucose molecules to form pyruvate
What does glycolysis provide?
The net gain of 2ATP
What are the two stages of glycolysis?
Energy investment and energy payoff
What is energy investment?
Spending 2ATP to add 2 phosphates onto glucose in two stages - activation of glucose (x2)
What is activation of glucose?
Getting the molecule into a form so energy can be captured, adding phosphates (x2)
Is the activation of glucose energetically favourable or unfavourable?
Energetically unfavourable, +ve gibbs energy
How can an energetically unfavourable reaction made favourable?
By reaction coupling
What is the activation of glucose coupled with?
ATP hydrolysis
What enzyme couples the activation of glucose and ATP hydrolysis reactions
Hexokinase first and phosphofructokinase second
What is the glucose first converted into - first activation of glucose?
Glucose-6-phosphate
What enzyme catalyses the rearrangement of glucose-6-phosphate?
Glucosephosphate isomerase
What is glucose-6-phosphate rearranged into?
Fructose-6-phosphate
Is the conversion of G-6-P to F-6-P energetically favourable or unfavourable?
Energetically unfavourable, however, because it is in the middle of the pathway, it is driven forward to completion.
What enzyme catalyses the seconds activation of glucose?
Phosphofructokinase, coupling with ATP hydrolysis
What does the seconds activation of glucose form?
Fructose-1,6-bisphosphate (FBP)
What happens at the end of the energy investment phase?
The aldolase reaction: FBP is split into dihydroxyacetone phosphate and glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate (G-3-P) (2x 3C molecules w/ 1P each)
What enzyme catalyses the aldolase reaction?
Aldolase
What happens to dihydroxyacetone phosphate?
It is rearranged to glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate by triose phosphate isomerase enzyme
What are the two key reactions for ATP synthesis?
ATP synthesis and redox reactions using coenzymes