Lecture 5: Cellular Respiration Flashcards
What is the ultimate source of energy
The sun
Functions of photosynthesis
- captures the energy of light
- converts it to chemical energy (complex organic molecules)- these act as a source of fuel via cellular respiration
How do cyanobacteria receive energy
trap solar energy and convert it into energy
Cellular respiration is a what kind of reaction
Hint: exergonic or endergonic
Exergonic
The transfer of energy uses
Negative Gibbs energy (capable of work) to build energy (ATP)
glucose contains
electrons at high energy levels, making it unstable (CATABOLIC)
process and products of energy flow
process: photosynthesis to glucose to cellular respiration (powered by ADP and free phosphate into ATP) and removal of an O2 to form CO2+ H2O (stable, and low energy level electrons)
PRODUCTS: CO2 and H2O which contain electrons at low energy levels
What do gasoline and glucose have in common
- abundance of C-H bonds
- good source of energy because its a np bond that shares electrons equally (electrons are equidistant)
- stores energy
When electrons move towards atomic nucleus energy is
released (can be captured to make ATP)
To move an electron away
- moving from a lower energy level to a higher energy level, you are absorbing energy
to move an electron inwards
- moving an electron closer to the nucleus, you are losing energy
The EN difference between CH bonds
0.4 difference
How do we get the energy that is stored in organic molecules
Oxidize it to remove the electrons
- the donor is oxidized=losing electrons
- acceptor is reduced=gains electrons
REDOX reaction (transfer of electrons from donor to acceptor atoms)
What is going to be able to remove the electrons
- An oxidizing agent which has a higher EN than the other atom so the electrons have a greater pull towards the oxidizing agents nucleus
One of the strongest oxidizing agent
Oxygen
- this can be dangerous, because O2 has a very strong pull of electrons
- can take electrons from carbs, proteins, DNA therefore we have to control it
O2 gets 4 electrons all at the same time and with H2O because it avoids reactant o2 species and instead goes straight to form H2O
Equal sharing of electrons between C-H bonds means
they have lots of energy which keeps them away from the nucleus
CH4 + 2O2 = CO2 + ENERGY + 2H2O
Why energy?
- release of energy, we went from high energy to unstable reactants to low energy stable products
- the high energy and unstable CH4 becomes oxidized into a more stable CO2, and 2O2 becomes 2H2O which is also more stable
(DUE TO THE EN DIFFERENCE BETWEEN C, H, O, AND N)
Cellular respiration
- organisms obtain energy by oxidizing organic molecules produced by photosynthesis in a series of reactions
- energy released in oxidation is captured in ATP
Cellular Respiration is what kind of reaction (aside from redox)
Controlled combustion
- whichever way you undergo cellular respiration, the G doesn’t change
- Enzyme control lets us capture and harness released energy to be sent to the carrier molecules
- VERY EFFICIENT, ESP DUE TO ENZYMES
Energy transfer
- electrons lose energy as they pass from donor to acceptor molecule
- released energy is free energy that can do work
- in cellular respiration, end result is ATP synthesis
What will carry the energy through this process
**what will carry the electrons
NAD+ (oxidized form of NADH)
- dehydrogenase (has another H)
- they help give us electrons by carrying them
REDOX from NAD+ to NADH
NAD+ + 2e- + H+ = NADH
What are the 3 stages of cellular respiration
1) glycolysis (substrate level phosphorylation), occurs in cytosol
2) citric acid cycle (substrate level phosphorylation) , occurs in mitochondria
3) electrons transport and chemiosmosis (oxidative level phosphorylation), occurs in mitochondria
Glycolysis
- glucose (6 carbons) is converted:
- through oxidation to 2 molecules of pyruvate (3 carbons each) through series of enzyme catalyzed reactions (10 steps)
- ATP and NADH synthesis through electron removal that is delivered to NAD+ producing NADH
Citric Acid Cycle
- 8 enzymatic reactions
- oxidize pyruvate
- acetyl-CoA
- enters the metabolic cycle
- collecting electrons so that NAD+ can product NADH
- oxidizied completely to CO2
- synthesis of atp, nadh, fadh2
Electron transport and chemiosmosis
NADH is synthesized by glycolysis and citric acid cycle is oxidized (also FADH2)
- Free e- pass along etc
- electrons transferred to O2 (water) (electron carriers, thet donate electrons to ETC)
- free energy establishments proton gradient across membrane
- Drive ATP synthesis
Mitochondria and cellular respiration
- location for. most cellular respiration
- but prokaryotes don’t have mitochondria
Inner mitochondrial membrane
- electron transfer
- ATP synthesis and ATP synthase
- matrix= reactions involving electrons
What does each glucose molecule oxidized produce
- 2 ATP
- 2 NADH
- 2 Pyruvate
- 2 water
(pyruvate and water produced from glucose)
Energy input and output during glycolysis
Energy investment: consumption of ATP to move through
Energy Harvest: made 4 atp, (net gain of 2 atp), remove electrons and make NADH
Steps 1-3 of glycolysis
1) glucose receives PO4 from ATP to produce G6P
2) G6P is rearranged into isomer to F6P
3) PO4 from ATP is attached to F6P to form F1,6BP (* uses phosphofructokinase)
1,3= phosphorylation
2= isomerization
Phosphofructokinase
regulated enzyme involved in step 3 of glycolysis
- regulates cellular respiration
- adding PO4 (which is unstable) on glucose (already unstable) which makes it MORE UNSTABLE so it looses MORE ENERGY
Steps 4-5 of glycolysis
4) F1,6BP is split into G3P and DAP (hydrolysis)
5) DAP produced is concerted to into G3P giving 2 G3P per one glucose (isomerization)
- 1 sugar= 2 G3P (only one that moves ahead)
Steps 6-7 of glycolysis
6) 2 electrons and 2 protons are removed from G3P, some of the energy released in this reaction is trapped by the addition of inorganic PO4 from cytosol (NOT ATP)
electrons are accepted by NAD+ along with 1 H+ the other H+ os released to cytosol (redox reaction)
7) One of the two phosphate groups of 1,3BPG is transferred to ADP to make ATP (substrate level phosphorylation) powered by kinase*
- production of 2ATP by substrate level phosphorylation
- Synthesis of 2 NADH by redox reactions
Steps 8-10 of Glycolysis
1) Energy output via PEP
- production of 2 ATP by substrate level phosphorylation
- 2 pyruvate=less PE than glucose
8) 3PG is rearranged shifting to the PO4 from C-3 to C-2 to make 2PG (mutase reaction)
9) E- are removed from 1 part of 2-PG and delivered to another part of the molecule. Most of the energy lost by the electrons is retained in the product…PEP (redox)
10) Remaining PO4 is removed from PEP and transferred to ADP, the reaction forms ATP and the final product of glycolysis=PYRUVATE
(substrate level phos.)
What is substrate level phosphorylation
- enzyme catalyzed reaction
- transfers PO4 from substrate to ADP to form ATP (can also be GDP to GTP)
What is mutase
shifting of a chemical group to another within the same molecule
ATP molecules are produced in
- glycolysis from substrate level phosphorylation
is ATP synthesis the same in the forms of cellular respiration.
- same in citric acid cycle as glycolysis
- at the end of etc, they use ATP synthase (unique to etc only)
- no phosphorylation
- different in oxidative phosphorylation and chemiosmosis
Pyruvate Oxidation in the Krebs cycle
- pyruvate must be modified to enter the Krebs cycle via pyruvate oxidation
- removal of Carboxyl group and moves a few e-
= acetyl-CoA can enter Krebs - this is dehydrogenation and decarboxylation and the acetyl-CoA is a high energy intermediate
What is dehydrogenation
removal of Hydrogen from organic molecule