Lecture 5 Flashcards
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What are the two main regulating mechanisms of metabolic pathways?
Hormones (insulin, glucagon, epinephrine, corticosteroids), and allosteric enzyme suppression or activation.
What are the compounds that affect the activity of allosteric enzymes?
Modulators
What are the two types of compounds that affect the activity of allosteric enzymes?
Positive modulators (increases activity of enzyme and speeds up rate of reaction) and negative modulators (reduces activity of enzyme and slows down the rate of reaction)
What are the metabolic pathways that are involved in CHO metabolism?
Glycogenesis (creation of glycogen)
Glycogenolysis (breakdown of glycogen)
Glycolysis (oxidation of glucose)
Krebs cycle (oxidation of pyruvate and Acetyl CoA
Gluconeogenesis (making of glucose from non-carbohydrate precursors)
What are the catabolic pathways?
glycolysis, glycogenolysis, proteolysis, lipolysis
What are the anabolic pathways?
gluconeogenesis, glycogenesis, protein synthesis, lipogenesis
1Where is the major site of glycogen synthesis and storage?
liver
What is the other major site of glycogen storage
skeletal muscle
When glucose enters a cell, what is the first product it becomes phosphorylated into?
Glucose-6-phosphate
What enzyme undertakes this function in the liver?
glucokinase
During the synthesis of glycogen, why is it’s branching structure important?
increases the solubility and compactness of glycogen
Which important enzyme in glycogen synthesis is the primary target for insulin
glycogen synthase
Which amino acid regulates the important enzyme in glycogen synthase’s activity?
serine
What is glycogenolysis
break down of glycogen to glucose
what hormones stimulate glycogenolysis?
glucagon and epinephrine
Where in the body is glucagon produced?
pancreas
where is ephinephrine produced?
adrenal medulla
What is the name of the enzyme that converts glycogen to the first breakdown substance in gycogenolysis
glycogen phosphorylase
what is the first substance that glycogen gets broken down into during glycogenolysis?
glucose-1-phosphate
In the last step of glycogenolysis, which enzyme acts on glucose 6 phosphate to produce glucose
glucose-6-phosphatase
Where is the only place that the glucose-6-phosphatase enzyme functions?
the liver.
What enzyme converts glucose to glucose-6-phosphate in the muscles?
Hexokinase
What two forms can glycogen phosphorylase exist in in glycogenolysis?
phosphorylase a (active form) or phosphorylase b (inactive form)
How is the glycogen phosphorylase enzyme regulated?
covalently by adrenaline and glucagon, or allosteric regulation by AMP (increased AMP keeps enzyme inactive)
What is glycolysis?
the oxidation of glucose to either lactate or pyruvate
What is the dominant product of glycolysis under aerobic conditions and what is the next metabolic process it enters into?
pyruvate, which then enters the krebs cycle
what is the dominant product of glycolysis under anaerobic conditions and what is the next metabolic process it enters into?
lactate, cori cycle
How much energy is used and produced during glycolysis?
2 ATP used, 4 ATP, 2 NADH and 2 pyruvate produced. Net 2 ATP, 2 NADH, 2 pyruvate.
What are the 4 stages of glycolysis that Lilli said we need to know?
glucose to glucose-6-phosphate to glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate to pyruvate
How many moles of energy are produced from glycolysis?
6 or 8 depending on whether it occurs in skeletal muscle (6) or liver (8)