Topic 2 General Flashcards
Monosacharrides
Glucose, galactose, fructose
absorbed immediately in the mouth
Polysaccharides
Starch cellulose
Salivary Amylase breaksdown in mouth then further broken down by stomach amylase
small intestine
Pancreatic amyalse
breaks down strach into oligosacchradies
Dissacharides
Lactose, maltose, sucrose
broken down by brush-border enzymes
ie dextrinase
Celluose
Is fibre
doesn’t get broken down
Sucrose
galactose and frucotse
Lactose
Galactose and glucose
Glycolysis
Universal central pathway of catabolic metabolism
In Glycolysis - 1 glucose molecule =
2 ATP and 2 pyruvate
Energy investment phase
first 5 steps of glycolysis
Energy production phase
Last 5 steps of glycolysis
NADH
is the reducing agent
Regulatory step 1
Hexokinase - Build up of G6P inhibits hexokinase
i.e - we already have enough stop making more
Regultory step 2
in step 3
phosphofrucokinase is inhibited by ATP but also accerlerated by AMP and ADP
Regulatory step 3
in step 10
Pyruvate kinase inhibited by high ATP but activated by high fructose1,6bisphosphate
Glycolysis reaction
Glucose +2 ADP +2Pi +2NAD = 2 ATP + 2 Pyruvate + NADH +2H +2H2O
NADH aerobic conditions
will be reoxidesed back to NAD+
NADH anaerobic conditions
reoxidised via the conversion of pyruvate to lactic acid or ethanol
Fates of pyruvate
Lactic acid
Acetyl CoA
Alanine
Oxaloacetate
Ethanol
which way it goes depends on if there is o2 present or not to reoxidise the NADH
Pyruvate to lactate
Under anabolic conditions
generally when exercising
pyruvate is reduced to lactate and the electron that is added came from NADH - hence why it becomes more acedic
pyruvate ———— lactate
enzyme - lactate dehydrogenase
Pyruvate to ethanol
Pyruvate ————— acteylaldhyde
enzyme = pyruvate decarboxylase
acetaldehyde ————– ethanol
alcohol dehydrogenase
the reduced H from NADH is added to the acetaldehyde
Regulation of Phosphofructokinase (pfk1)
Activated by low ATP , ADP High levels of f16bp
Inhibitors Citrate and ATP
High level of atp lowers affinity for f16bp
High levels of citrate also lowers affinity
Regulation of pyruvate kinase
activated by F16BP, ADP, AMP
inhibited by ATP, fatty acid
Entry of other sugars
HExokinase also has affinity for other sugars