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What metabolites enter the citric acid cycle and is formed in part by the removal of a carbon from one molecule of pyruvate?
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What intermediary metabolites enters the citric acid cycle and is formed in part by the removal of a carbon CO2 from one molecule of pyruvate?
acetyl CoA
How many pyruvate molecules are produced per glucose molecule during glycolysis?
Glucose contains six carbon atoms, whereas pyruvate only contains three, so it is possible to derive two pyruvate molecules (3+3 carbon atoms) from one glucose molecule (=6 carbon atoms). During the early stages of glycolysis, the glucose is converted into Fructose-1,6-bisphosphate. This molecule also has six carbon atoms, and is split by an enzyme called 'fructose biphosphate aldolase' into two separate molecules containing three carbon atoms: glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate and dihydroxyacetone phosphate. It is the glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate that is later converted into pyruvate, accounting for the first pyruvate molecules from glucose. However, the other 3-carbon molecule, dihydroxyacetone phosphate, is kept in equilibium with glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate by an enzyme known as 'triose phosphate isomerase', so that this is eventually converted into pyruvate as well. The result being two pyruvate molecules per glucose molecule.
What is released when pyruvate is broken down?
Pyruvate, when channeled into the Kreb's cycle ultimately releases energy in the form of ATP and carbon dioxide.
What are the three carbon molecules when glucose is broken in half during glycolysis?
The 3-carbon molecule produced when glucose is broken in half in glycolysis is pyruvic acid. It gives energy to living cells through the Krebs cycle.
Is glucose a two carbon molecule?
No, it is a six-carbon molecule.
What intermediary metabolites enters the citric acid cycle and is formed in part by the removal of a carbon CO2 from one molecule of pyruvate?
acetyl CoA
How many C atoms are in a molecule of pyruvate?
There are three carbon atoms and three oxygen atoms in each pyruvate molecule.
What are the Products of the Krebs cycle per molecule of pyruvate?
For one molecule of Pyruvate (pyruvic acid) the Krebs cycle produces 2 molecules of carbon dioxide (CO2), 3 molecules of NADH, one molecule of FADH2, and one molecule of ATP.Also, the change from pyruvate to acetyl CoA produces one NADH and one carbon dioxide molecule; CoA is recycled in and out of the cycle.
What is a 3 carbon molecule produced when glucose isbroken in half during glycolysis?
PGA,PGAL,Pyruvate
During glycolosys glucose molecules is broken into?
In glycolysis, one 6-carbon glucose molecule is converted into two 3-carbon pyruvate molecules. If no oxygen is present then each of those two pyruvate molecules will be converted into 3-carbon lactate (lactic acid).
How many ATP molecules can the cell synthesize for each molecule of pyruvate oxidized to carbon dioxide and water?
7
In glycolysis what is the first three carbon compound produced?
Two molecules of pyruvate are created from one molecule of glucose.
How is glucose transformed into ATP?
one molecule of glucose will be transformed into 2 molecules of pyruvate which is a 3 carbon molecule. Coenzyme A will then turn that pyruvate molecule into acetly CoA which is the starting molecule for the krebs cycle.
What is the first step to breaking down a glucose molecule is?
Breaking down glucose into pyruvate is known as Glycolysis. Glycolysis involves splitting one molecule of the simple 6-carbon sugar glucose into two smaller molecules of the 3-carbon pyruvate. The process is anaerobic and occurs in the cytoplasm of cell.
Name the two step process where pyruvate is converted to a two carbon compound releasing carbon dioxide. Then the electrons are transferred from a molecule of NADH to the two carbon compound producing?
Pyruvate decarboxylation -> Acetaldehyde reduction The product is ethanol. Pyruvate decarboxylation is performed by pyruvate decarxylase with cofactor thiamine pyrophosphate, and the product, acetaldehyde, is reduced by NADH. (Pyruvate decarboxylase is NOT the same as the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex in cellular respiration. Though pyruvate dehydrogenase also decarboxylates pyruvate, but the decarboxlated species immediately reacts with CoA to form acetyl-CoA).
What are the different ways in which glucose is oxidised to provide energy?
The first step is breaking down of glucose as a six carbon molecule into a three carbon molecule is called pyruvate may be converted into ethanol and carbon dioxide .this process take place in yeast during fermentation
The breakdown of pyruvate in the Krebs cycle result in the release of?
NO. You release 2 CO2 from each turn on the kreb cycle. You have to go around the cycle twice in order to decarboxylate 1 glucose molecule (you go around twice because you have 2 pyruvate molecules in one glucose, meaning one full turn of the kreb cycle per pyruvate molecule)
