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cholesterol from stereos solid and the greek chole- bile followed by the chemical suffix -ol for an alcohol is an organic chemical substance
triacylglycerols are synthesized from fatty acyl coas and glycerol 3-phosphatethe glycolytic intermediate dihydroxyacetone
a triglyceride tg tag triacylglycerol or triacylglyceride is an ester derivative from glycerol and three fatty acids there are various triglycerides
fatty acids are synthesized in the cytosol but acetyl coa is produce from pyruvate in the
fatty acids are synthesized by the condensation of two-carbon units furthermore in terms of the enzymic steps contained
fatty acid synthesis is the formation of fatty acids from malonyl-coa and acetyl-coa precursors by action of enzymes called as fatty acid synthases
the main point of control of beta-oxidation is the availability of fatty acids the major source of free fatty
unsaturated fatty acids require some additional processing before they can be degraded completely by beta-oxidation the unsaturated fatty acyl
fatty acid breakdown happens in the cytosol of prokaryotes in plants in peroxisomes and in the mitochondrial matrix of all other eukaryotes by
the next set of lectures in this course cover a number of topics including fermenter design power consumption oxygen transfer and mixing the aim of
fatty acid breakdown brings about the oxidation of long-chain fatty acids the fatty acids are first transformed to their acyl coa coenzyme a
given our knowledge so far we now need to evaluate if it is feasible to run the process in the designed vessel we therefore need to compare the
fatty acids are a very significant adenosine triphosphate atp and source of energy for various cellular organisms over fatty acids glucose and other
fatty acids have four main biological roles1 they are used to create sphingolipids and glycerophospholipids which are necessary elements of
in chemistry and particularly in biochemistry the fatty acid is a carboxylic acid with a long aliphatic tail chain that is either saturated
as we have seen in during epinephrine hormonal control or glucagon dephosphorylated phosphorylase kinase is activated by
insulin is released into the bloodstream by the beta cells of the pancreas when blood glucose stages
the major factor which controls glycogen metabolism in the liver is the concentration of phorphorylase alpha certainly this enzyme catalyzes the
glycogen is a huge polymer of glucose residues linked by alpha1-4 glycosidic bonds with branches every 10 residues or so by alpha1-6 glycosidic
glycogen is a multibranched polysaccharide which serves as a part of energy storage in fungi and animals in humans the glycogen is recognized and
decreasing power is available in a cell both as nadph and nadh but these have quite distinct roles nadh is oxidized by the respiratory chain to
the pentose phosphate pathway also called as the phosphogluconate pathway and the hexose monophosphate shunt is a procedure which gives pentoses
regulation of pyruvate kinase pyruvate carboxylase and pep carboxykinasea in liver pyruvate kinase is inhibited by high levels of
when the level of amp is high this shows the requirement for more atp synthesis amp stimulates pfk increases the rate of glycolysis and inhibits
glycolysis generates two atps net per glucose whereas gluconeogenesis uses four atps and two gtps per glucose thus if both glycolysis and