Gluconeogenesis involves the synthesis of glucose from non-carbohydrate precursors. The organs most active from the perspective of gluconeogenesis are the liver and the kidney, which supply glucose to the organs that cannot synthesize it, yet have a strict need for glucose as an energy source. a. Gluconeogenesis requires several equilibrium steps of glycolysis to run in the reverse direction. What are the reactants and products when GAPDH runs in the direction of gluconeogenesis b. Glycolysis as a ten-step pathway from glucose to pyruvate is Favourable. Is gluconeogenesis favourable under standard conditions (ie. is the ΔGo’ for the pathway negative)? c. What is true about the thermodynamics of the regulated steps in glycolysis. Compare ΔG and ΔGo’ for those steps in both directions.
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Gluconeogenesis uses the same enzymatic reactions as glycolysis, except for the four irreversible reactions of glycolysis. Gluconeogenesis is the formation of glucose from simple two and three-carbon precursors. The liver is the site of gluconeogenesis in mammals. An intermediate found in gluconeogenesis and not glycolysis is oxaloacetate. The activity of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase is most affected by the rate of synthesis of the enzyme. Fructose 2,6-bisphosphate inhibits glycolysis while it stimulates gluconeogenesis. The pentose phosphate pathway has two primary products: ribose 5-phosphate and NADPH. The pentose phosphate pathway could alternatively be called the pentose phosphate cycle because glucose 6-phosphate is a net product of the pathway that can be recycled. The non-oxidative stage of the pentose phosphate pathway produces substances that are intermediates of glycolysis. Glycogen synthase in vertebrates requires ATP to activate glucose 1-phosphate. Glycogen synthase requires a primer of 4-8 linked glucose residues. Glycogen degradation occurs in the liver and muscle. Glucagon is secreted when blood glucose is high, while insulin is secreted when blood glucose is low. Elevated levels of glucagon are associated with a fasting state. More energy in the form of ATP is required to synthesize glucose than can be obtained from glucose being metabolized by glycolysis alone. Rapidly dividing cells generally have a low pentose phosphate pathway activity. The brain normally uses both glucose and fatty acids as energy sources. All blood glucose in humans is derived from carbohydrate sources included in the diet. Under starvation conditions, it takes about one week for humans to deplete their glycogen stores. NADPH is a reducing agent.
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Glycolysis and Gluconeogenesis. As Figure $9-11$ indicates, gluconeogenesis is accomplished by what is essentially the reverse of the glycolytic pathway but with bypass reactions in place of the first, third, and tenth reactions in glycolysis. (a) Explain why it is not possible to accomplish gluconeogenesis by a simple reversal of all the reactions in glycolysis. (b) Write an overall reaction for gluconeogenesis that is comparable to Reaction $9-16$ for glycolysis. (c) Explain why gluconeogenesis requires the input of six molecules of nucleoside triphosphates (four ATPs and two GTPs) per molecule of glucose synthesized, whereas glycolysis yields only two molecules of ATP per molecule of glucose. (d) Assuming concentrations of ATP, ADP, and $P_{i}$ are such that $\Delta G^{\prime}$ for the hydrolysis of $\mathrm{ATP}$ is about $-10 \mathrm{kcal} / \mathrm{mol}$, what is the approximate $\Delta G^{\prime}$ value for the overall reaction for gluconeogenesis that you wrote in part b? (e) With all of the enzymes for glycolysis and gluconeogenesis present in a liver cell, how does the cell "know" whether it should be synthesizing or catabolizing glucose at any given time?
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A) Gluconeogenesis is basically the reverse process of glycolysis with a few different enzymes involved. In gluconeogenesis, which reactions use ATP/GTP and which reactions use NADH? B) Most of gluconeogenesis occurs in the cytosol, but there is a part of the process that occurs within the liver matrix. What reactions occur in the liver matrix? C) What is the significance of malate → OAA by malate dehydrogenase in the cytosol? D) How does gluconeogenesis relate to the Cori cycle?
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