Unit 2 Flashcards
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How do cells harvest energy?
- glycolysis
- krebs cycle
- pyruvate oxidation
- etc and chemiosmosis
How does glycolysis harvest cell energy?
- not efficient
- doesn’t require O2
- all cells can do
How does pyruvate oxidation harvest energy?
conversion of pyruvate to acetyl co a
How does the electron transport and chemiosmosis generate energy for the cell?
- sometimes ETC is leaky and could be used from other processes so we don’t know exact number of ATP formed
- most efficient in prokaryotes because they don’t need to transport across mitochondria
Where is the electron transport chain done?
outer plasma membrane mitochondria membrane
What are the glycolysis substrates and products?
substrate: glucose
products: ATP, electron carriers (NADH), pyruvate which then goes to ACA
What does the electron tansport do?
turns glucose do into CO2
What do electron carriers do?
- produce ATP with ATP synthase
What is the order of energy formation in cells?
- glycolysis
- pyruvate oxidation
- krebs
- etc
Where do pyruvate oxidation and krebs cycle take place?
- mitochondrial matrix
Where does glycolysis take place?
in cytoplasm
What is the rate limiting step in glycolysis
PFK1
- takes the longest
What is the electron acceptor in glycolysis?
- NAD+
NaD+ oxidized
NADH is reduced
What is pyruvate?
- a 3 c molecule converted to ACA under aerobic conditions
What does pyruvate dehydrogenase do?
catalyzies pyruvate oxitation
Do tumors want to undergo pyruvate oxidation?
no
they want to turn it off so it can’t mutate and be detected
What happens to pyruvate under anaerobic conditions?
- converted to lactate/ lactic acid
- releases ethanol and acetylaldehyde
Where does the citric acid cycle take place?
- mitochondrial matrix
What is the citric acid cycle?
- biochemical pathway of 9 steps
- releases Co2
- reduces electron carriers
What are the substrates and products of the citric acid cycle?
- substrate is ACA, produces ATP, NADH, FADH2, releases Co2
- produces 1 atp per pyruvate or 2 per glucose
What are the electron carriers in the citric acid cycle?
- NADH FADH2
Do tumors want to undergo the citric acid cycle?
no
What is the electron transport chain?
- series of membrane bound electron carriers
- electrons from NADH and FADH2 are transfered to complexes of ETC
- creats an H ion gradient between 2 mitochondrial membanes during ATP synthase
What is NADH dehydrogenase?
- 1st complex in ETC
- accepts NADH
- not mutated in cancer