BIOL130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Lysosome, Reduction Potential, Disaccharide

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Living cells use enzymes to carry out the oxidation of sugars in a tightly controlled series of reaction. Energy released by oxidizing glucose is saved in the high-energy bonds of atp and other activated carrier molecules. Enzyme-catalysed reactions are directly coupled to the energetically unfavorable reaction: adp + pi atp, oxidization of food molecules provide the energy that allows this reaction to proceed. Catabolism: general term for the enzyme-catalyzed reactions in a cell by which complex molecules are degraded to simpler ones with release of energy. Intermediates in these catabolic reactions are sometimes called catabolities. Stage 1 in the enzymatic breakdown food molecules-digestion-occurs either outside the cells or in a specialized organelle within cells called the lysosome. Digestive enzymes reduce the large polymeric molecules in food into their monomeric subunits, after they are broken down and enter the cytosol for the beginning of gradual oxidation.

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