BIOCHEM 523 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Dihydroxyacetone Phosphate, Ethanol Fermentation, Hexokinase

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Overview of glycolysis baking reactions), and energy generation (last five reactions) oxidation state of the products compared to that of the substrates and many of them play major roles in the food and chemical industries. The ten reactions of glycolysis occur in two phases: energy investment (first five. A fermentation is an energy-yielding metabolic pathway with no net change in the. Dozens of different fermentation processes have been discovered in different organisms, Alcohol fermentation by yeasts is an important industrial process in brewing and. It generates the ethanol and bubbles of co2 in alcoholic beverages. In baking, the co2 causes bread to rise, while the ethanol merely evaporates. Anaerobic glycolysis (like aerobic glycolysis) leads to pyruvate, but the pyruvate is then. The conversion of glucose to pyruvate in a respiring cell is called aerobic glycolysis. There are three basic processes involved propionic acid (in the manufacture of swiss cheese) reduced, so no net oxidation of glucose occurs.