Biochemistry 2280A Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Pyruvic Acid, Glycogen, Fatty Acid Metabolism

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Unit 2: energy metabolism lesson 12: acetyl-coa 2 fatty acids, ketone bodies, and. Lipase breaks the fatty acids away from the glycerol: regulated by hormones insulin and glucagon. Fadh2 comes from different sources: fadh2 protons can also be added to coenzyme q to make qh2, made from citric acid cycle, cytosolic nadh and fatty acid oxidation, all are equivalent for atp production. Ketone bodies: acetone, acetoacetate, -hydroxybutyrate (alcohol form of acetoacetate). Its converted by into acetyl-coa in the brain: muscles can also pick up ketone bodies, happens during low glucose conditions. Fatty acid biosynthesis: happens in high glucose conditions, acetyl-coa can use electrons from nadph to make fatty acids, occurs in the cytosol. Fatty acid metabolism high glucose: acetyl-coa is made into fatty acids in the liver, the fatty acids enter the adipocytes through the blood stream, fatty acids and glycerol triacylglycerol, insulin stimulates this reaction. In the liver it is made into acetyl-coa.

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30. In final step of the triacylglycerol biosynthesis, which of the following is added to the diacylglycerol?

A. Acetyl-CoA

B. Phosphatidic acid

C. Fatty acyl-CoA

D. Glycerol-3-P

31. The activation of long chain fatty acids requires which of the following?

A. 2 ATPs

B. 2 ATPs and Co-A

C. 2 ATP, CoA and fatty-acyl CoA

D. 2 ATPs and a fatty acid.

32. What is the metabolic pathway that does not involve succinyl-CoA?

A. Ketone bodies to acetyl CoA

B. Odd chain fatty acid oxidation

C. Even chain fatty acid oxidation

D. TCA cycle

33. In order to break down fatty acids, they are first transported into the mitochondrial matrix by conversion of the fatty acid from a covalent complex with CoA to one with:

A. Citrate.

B. Oxaloacetate.

C. Malate.

D. Carnitine.

E. Pyruvate.

34. Regarding carnitine shuttle, the enzyme translocase involves which of the following pair?

A. Fatty acyl & CoA

B. Fatty acyl-carnitine & carnitine

C. Fatty acyl CoA & carnitine

D. Fatty acyl & carnitine

35. The family of drugs that are called "statins" (e.g. lipitor) are effective at lowering plasma levels of cholesterol because they:

A. slow the rate of cholesterol uptake from plasma into the cell.

B. increase the rate of synthesis of cholesterol inside the cell.

C. inhibit the activity of a key enzyme in the cholesterol synthetic pathway.

D. prevent the synthesis of Mevalonate

1. Integrated metabolism

A. A molecule of glucose that you eat can eventually be transformed into part of a fatty acid that you store. Circle the pathways/cycles below that are part of this overall flow of carbon atoms. Cross out any that are not.

Gluconeogenesis, beta-oxidation, citric acid cycle, glycolysis, urea cycle, fatty acid synthesis

B. Trace the metabolic path of this glucose molecule through the enzymes it encounters along the way to being made into fat. Write all the enzymes in the list below into the proper places in the figure below. If the enzyme is not used, write its name in a ânot used" column. If it is used, write the enzyme in the order that the carbon atoms from glucose encounter the enzymes.

Pyruvate dehydrogenase, fumarase, aldolase, lactate dehydrogenase, pyruvate kinase, acetyl CoA carboxylase, fatty acid synthase, hexokinase, carnitine acyltransferase, ATP synthase

B. What is the minimum number of glucose molecules that would be necessary to be the carbon source for synthesis of a 16-carbon fatty acid through this pathway?

C. How many net glucose can be made from one molecule of a 16-carbon fatty acid?

2. Describe each cycle/transport system (compounds, compartments, tissues) and explain its purpose:

A. citrate transport system

B. Cori cycle

C. glucose/alanine cycle

Explain the logic of these pathway regulations:

A. Phosphofructokinase, not hexokinase, is the main regulation site of glycolysis.

B. SuccinylCoA inhibits the entry of acetyl CoA into the citric acid cycle.

C. NADH inhibits pyruvate dehydrogenase.

D. Citrate inhibits the citric acid cycle and activates acetyl-CoA carboxylase.

E. Insulin leads to activation of glycogen synthase.

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Biochemistry 2280A Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Pyruvic Acid, Glycogen, Fatty Acid Metabolism

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