BCH210H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 33: Glycogen, Thioester, Insulin

• School: UTSG
• Department: Biochemistry
• Course: BCH210H1
• Professor: Stavroula Andreopoulos

Document Summary

Insulin recruits glucose transports to glucose can enter the cell. Glucose comes into glycolysis and we break it down to make atp. If we want to store glucose, we stroe it as glycoge. Acetyl coa is an amphibolic intermediate because its made in the breakdown reactions. First we need to export the carbons from acetyl coa into the cytoplasm. This is the committed step, if this happens, fat synthesis takes place. When we add the co2 group, we form malonyl coa and this makes the fatty acid chains longer. Acetyl coa can come from pdc, fa chains, or amino acids. We have an export molecule that can export citrate. The enzyme that makes the transporter is citrate synthase and it uses a water molecule. It combines oxaloacetate with 2 carbons from acetyl coa and it uses a water to move the waters into the cytoplasm.