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What are the two main regulating mechanisms of metabolic pathways?

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Hormones (insulin, glucagon, epinephrine, corticosteroids), and allosteric enzyme suppression or activation.

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What are the compounds that affect the activity of allosteric enzymes?

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Modulators

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What are the two types of compounds that affect the activity of allosteric enzymes?

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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)

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What are the metabolic pathways that are involved in CHO metabolism?

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 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)

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What are the catabolic pathways?

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glycolysis, glycogenolysis, proteolysis, lipolysis

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What are the anabolic pathways?

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gluconeogenesis, glycogenesis, protein synthesis, lipogenesis

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1Where is the major site of glycogen synthesis and storage?

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liver

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What is the other major site of glycogen storage

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skeletal muscle

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When glucose enters a cell, what is the first product it becomes phosphorylated into?

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Glucose-6-phosphate

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What enzyme undertakes this function in the liver?

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glucokinase

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During the synthesis of glycogen, why is it’s branching structure important?

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increases the solubility and compactness of glycogen

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Which important enzyme in glycogen synthesis is the primary target for insulin

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glycogen synthase

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Which amino acid regulates the important enzyme in glycogen synthase’s activity?

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serine

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What is glycogenolysis

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break down of glycogen to glucose

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what hormones stimulate glycogenolysis?

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glucagon and epinephrine

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Where in the body is glucagon produced?

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pancreas

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where is ephinephrine produced?

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adrenal medulla

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What is the name of the enzyme that converts glycogen to the first breakdown substance in gycogenolysis

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glycogen phosphorylase

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what is the first substance that glycogen gets broken down into during glycogenolysis?

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glucose-1-phosphate

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In the last step of glycogenolysis, which enzyme acts on glucose 6 phosphate to produce glucose

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glucose-6-phosphatase

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Where is the only place that the glucose-6-phosphatase enzyme functions?

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the liver.

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What enzyme converts glucose to glucose-6-phosphate in the muscles?

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Hexokinase

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What two forms can glycogen phosphorylase exist in in glycogenolysis?

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phosphorylase a (active form) or
phosphorylase b (inactive form)
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How is the glycogen phosphorylase enzyme regulated?

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covalently by adrenaline and glucagon, or allosteric regulation by AMP (increased AMP keeps enzyme inactive)

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What is glycolysis?
the oxidation of glucose to either lactate or pyruvate
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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
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what is the dominant product of glycolysis under anaerobic conditions and what is the next metabolic process it enters into?
lactate, cori cycle
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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.
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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
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How many moles of energy are produced from glycolysis?
6 or 8 depending on whether it occurs in skeletal muscle (6) or liver (8)
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Why does glycolysis in skeletal muscle produce less moles of energy than in the liver
because in skeletal muscle tissue, 2 ATP are used to transfer NADH from cytosol to mitochondria
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How many moles of ATP are produced in the Krebs cycle?
30
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How much ATP is produced in total from glycolysis and the krebs cycle for one mole of glucose to O2 and H2O?
30+6 or 8 = 36 or 38.
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Through which two pathways can pyruvate be produced?
Through glycolysis, or gluconeogenesis from amino acids.
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What amino acids can be used to produce pyruvate?
*Monster Children Toot Amazing Tunes* | Methionine, cysteine, tryptophan, alanine, threonine
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In glycolysis, what two products can glucose be oxidised into?
lactate and pyruvate
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What does the choice of which product is made depend on?
the presence or absence of oxygen
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what is the name of the glycolysis cycle that occurs under aerobic conditions
aerobic glycolysis
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What is the name of the process by which NADH is generated and used to fuel ATP synthesis?
oxidative phosphorylation (aka kreb's cycle)
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Where does the krebs cycle take place?
mitochondria
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What are the coenzymes in glycolysis formed from?
NAD - niacin (B3) | FAD - riboflavin (B2)
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What amino acids can acetyl CoA be made from?
ILLT | isoleucine, leucine, lysine, tryptophan
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What are the 8 stages of the krebs cycle?
(Can I keep selling sex for money officer?) Citrate, isocitrate, alpha-ketoglutarate, succinyl-CoA, succinate, fumarate, malate, oxaloacetate
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what are the enzymes involved in the citric acid cycle?
(CAIK Sounds So Freaking Mint) Citrate synthase, Aconitase, Isocitrate dehydrogenase, alpha-Ketoglutarate dehydrogenase complex, Succinyl CoA synthetase, Succinate dehydrogenase, fumarase, malate dehydrogenase.
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What are the amino acids that form alpha-ketoglutarate?
(HOP HAG) hydroxyproline, ornithine, proline, histadine, argnine, glutamate
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If the body has sufficient ATP, where might the TCA cycle become blocked?
isocitrate
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What amino acids is Succinyl CoA produced from?
VIM: valine, isoleucine, methionine
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What amino acids is fumarate made from?
PT: (fumarate) phenylalanine | tyrosine (precursors of dopamine)
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What amino acids is oxaloacetate made from?
asparagine, aspartate
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What are the cofactors for the conversion of pyruvate to Acetyl-CoA?
TPP (B1), FAD (B2), NAD (B3), CoA (B5), lipoic acid, Mg2+
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What enzyme converts pyruvate to Acetyl CoA?
Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Complex
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What are the nutritional cofactors necessary for the conversion of lipids to acetyl-CoA?
B1, B2, B3, B5
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What are the nutritional cofactors necesary for the conversion of CHO to Acetyl CoA?
B1, B2, B3, B5
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What are the nutritional cofactors necesary for the conversion of proteins to acetyl-Coa?
B1, B2, B3, B5, B6
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What cofactor is necessary for conversion of citrate to isocitrate?
Fe
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What cofactors are needed for conversion of isocitrate to alphaketoglutarate?
B3, Mn, Mg
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What cofactors are necessary for the conversion of alpha-ketoglutarate to succinyl-CoA?
B1, B2, B3, B5, lipoic acid
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What cofactor is needed for succinyl-CoA to succinate?
Mg
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What cofactors are needed for conversion of succinate to fumarate?
Fe, B2
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What cofactors are needed for conversion of malate to oxaloacetate?
B3
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Which two nutrients carry the hydrogen atoms of rthe electron transport chain?
NADH and FADH2
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What are the other 3 nutrients needed in this process?
Sulphur, iron, copper
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What are the end products of the ETC?
ATP, water, heat, CO2,
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What is the Cori cycle?
pathway that converts lactate from the muscles into glucose in the liver.
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What hormone stimulates enzymes to work on glycogen in skeletal muscle cells?
epinephrine
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What substance carries lactic acid from muscle to liver?
glutamine
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What enzyme in skeletal muscle stimulates breakdown of glycogen?
adenyl cyclase
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What does adenyl cyclase stimulate formation of
cAMP from ATP
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What enzyme causes phosphorylations in skeletal muscle during glycogenolysis?
protein kinase
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What hormone initiates glycogenolysis in skeletal muscle?
epinephrine
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Wha tis gluconeogenesis?
synthesis of glucose from non-CHO sources
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which process initiates ketogenesis?
starvation
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where is gluconeogenesis carried out?
liver and kidneys
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from what products can glucose be synthesised from (other than CHO)
amino acids, pyruvate, lactate, lipids
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What is ketogenesis?
ketone body synthesis from using fat for energy

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