BIOC13H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Endergonic Reaction, Activation Energy, Futile Cycle

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First is glucose reacting with pi to give g6p, required 14 kj of free energy for every m of glucose. Second step is atp to adp and pi, which is exergonic. A lot more energy is released from the breakdown of atp than is required for g6p and so it makes sense thermodynamically. For coupled reactions there must be some form of simultaneous reaction. Water molecules can react with atp causing it to react and release free energy, but there is nothing to use that energy, and so the energy of the atp goes to waste. Therefore, the enzyme has adopted a mechanism that prevents atp to be degraded before the energy is immediately conserved. The answer is that that concentration is what gives them the minimal free energy. As you start converting a and b into c and d you start to reduce the free energy.

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