Lecture 29: Glucose Anabolism (Gluconeogenesis) Flashcards
Gluconeogenesis Overview
What type of precersors create glucose?
noncarbohydrate precursors
Gluconeogenesis Overview
What are the main precursors?
Lactate
AA
Glycerol
Gluconeogenesis Overview
Where in the body does gluconeogenesis primarily take place?
The liver
Gluconeogenesis Overview
When is gluconeogensis important?
During fasting and starvation
* when glucose cannot be obtained through fuel
** glucose is the primary fuel for the brain and only fuel for red blood cells
Gluconeogenesis Overview
Where does gluconeogenesis happen (cell wise)?
cytosol
mitrochondria
ER
Gluconeogenesis Overview
What is gluconeogensis in relation to glycolosis?
It opperates in the opposite direction to glycolosis but is not the reverse since glycolosis has 3 irreversible reactions that must be bypassed
Gluconeogenesis Overview
What does glyconeogenesis have to combat Hexokinase?
Glucose-6-phosphotase
Gluconeogenesis Overview
What does glyconeogenesis have to combat phosphofructokinase?
Fructose 1,6-biphosphotase
Gluconeogenesis Overview
What does glyconeogenesis have to combat pyruvate kinase?
pyruvate carboxylase and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase
Bypass of Pyruvate Kinase
How many energy consuming steps are there in this section?
2
Bypass of Pyruvate Kinase
What is the first step?
Pyruvate carboxylase concerts pyruvate to oxaloacetate
Bypass of Pyruvate Kinase
Where does this step take place?
Inside the mitrochondria
Bypass of Pyruvate Kinase
How does oxaloacetate leave the mitochondria for use in step 2?
It cannot leave directly, it is shuttled out using malate
Bypass of Pyruvate Kinase
What does shuttled through Malate mean?
The oxaloacetate is reduced to malate to exit the mitochondia then oxidized back into oxaloacetate once in the cytosol (uses NADH and NAD)
Bypass of Pyruvate Kinase
What molecules are used to transform pyruvate to oxaloacetate?
CO2 and H2O