Lecture 7 Key Summary Points Flashcards
Which cholesterol is good?
HDL
Which cholesterol is bad?
LDL
Why do people in Crete have the least amount of heart attacks?
b/c they eat lots of unsaturated fatty acids generating lots of HDL
Glycerol to get to G3P
-1 ATP
+ 1 NADH
Fatty Acid Synthetase needs to use ____ ATP to convert fatty acid to acetyl CoA
2 ATP
What transports Fatty Acetyl CoA from cytoplasm into the mitochondria? (Cato to Mito)
Carnitine
What is the rate limiting step for fatty acid degradation?
Carnitine
Where is CAT I located?
Outer Mitochondrial Membrane
Where is CAT II located?
Inner Mitochondrial Membrane
What is the purpose of the CAT I and CAT II?
Bring fatty acetyl coA from cytosol to matrix
What is the rate controlling step for fatty acid oxidation?
Carnitine Cycle
Does fatty acid oxidation occur in cytoplasm, mitochondria, or mixed?
Mixed
Fatty acetyl-coA needs to turn into _____ to go through the transporter and cannot go through the mitochondria directly.
fatty acyl-carnintine
Where does beta oxidation occur?
Mitochondria
What enzyme is mutated in Lorenzeo’s mother’s genes?
Acyl CoA dehydrogenase
In beta oxidation cycle (1)__ oxidations generate (2) electrons and __(3) NADH and __(4)_ FADH2
- 2 oxidations
- 4 electrons
- 1 NADH
- 1 FADH2
In beta oxidation every cycle we chop off ___ C to make acetyl coA
2 C
Propinyl CoA carboxylase turns __ C into __ C
3C into 4 C