BIOC 2580 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Metabolic Pathway, Glycogen, Alanine

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Biochemistry
• Course: BIOC 2580
• Professor: Enoka Wijekoon

Document Summary

The chart on the right is a schematic of cellular metabolic pathways. We are only going to study a very small amount of this complexity. Our goal however, is not just to memorize facts (although we need to do some of that), but to draw, from just a few specific examples, general principles that we can apply to all aspects of biochemistry. As we learn about metabolism, we soon see that there are many common themes to cellular chemical transformations, whether we are considering processes as diverse as amino acid biosynthesis, steroid hormone metabolism, or dna repair. We can divide metabolism pretty cleanly into two halves: anabolism, the process of building up larger and more complex molecules from simple precursors, the breakdown of large molecules and foodstuffs into simpler products. In this course, we are going to focus on the central catabolic pathways of fatty acid and sugar metabolism. and catabolism, themes simplify.