BIOC13H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Exergonic Reaction, Endergonic Reaction, Energy Carrier

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14 Feb 2017
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There are 1000s of chemical reactions taking place in a living organism. There are about 4000 known enzymes involved in metabolism. Metabolite: any compound involved in metabolism in some way. Can group many metabolic reactions taking place into pathways. Different types of metabolites exist: substrates (reactants, starting points, molecules that first enter a cell), products (end, metabolite produced), intermediates (unimportant molecules in the middle of a pathway) These intermediates are steps to get from a starting point to an end point. Energy metabolism is the citric acid cycle. Citric acid cycle is the centre of the metabolism pathway (very important pathway) Metabolism can be though of being just 2 components; anabolism and catabolism. Anabolic reactions take simple molecules and build them up into complex molecules (building proteins from amino acids) building up part. Catabolic reaction take complex molecules and break them back into their precursors (breaking proteins into amino acids) tearing down part.

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