BCH2022 Study Guide - Final Guide: Anaerobic Respiration, Lactic Acid, Glycolysis
Aerobic Cellular Respiration
Stage
Location
Inputs
Outputs
ATP
Produced
Glycolysis
Cytosol
Glucose
2 NAD+
2 ADP + Pi
2 x Pyruvate
2 NADH
2 or 4
• Glucose6-phosphate → pyruvate
Why ATP is required for preparatory steps of glycolysis
• 2 ATP is needed to power glycolysis and raise glucose to a higher, more
unstable, energy state.
Anaerobic Cellular Respiration
• Does not break down glucose as completely as aerobic cellular respiration
does
• Get less energy released
• First undergoes Glycolysis then different between plants and animals
• When oxygen not present, pyruvate is converted via anaerobic pathway
Name
Organism
Input
Waste
ATP
Limiting
Factor
Alcohol
Fermentation
Plants in
yeast
Glucose
Ethanol + CO2
2
Alcohol is
toxic to plants
and cannot
accumulate
C6H12O6➔
2CH3CH2OH + CO2 + 2 ATP
Lactic Acid
Fermentation
Animals
Glucose
Lactic Acid
2
Lactic acid
causes muscle
cramps and
soreness in
tissue
C6H12O6➔
2CH3CH(OH)COOH + 2 ATP
Fate of pyruvate
• Anaerobic
o Lactate (active skeletal muscles)
o Ethanol (microorganism)
Alcohol Fermentation
• CO2 is removed from pyruvate, creating acetaldehyde
• NADH gives a proton to acetaldehyde, creating ethanol
• Therefore, the produces of alcohol fermentation are 6CO2, ethanol and 2ATP
C6H12O6➔
2CH3CH2OH + CO2 + 2 ATP
Lactic Acid Fermentation
• During strenuous activity, cells initiate anaerobic respiration
• Lactate may accumulate in muscles and decrease the pH
• When rest occurs and oxygen demands of cells are met, pyruvate goes through
Krebs Cycle
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Glycolysis
• Purpose: to make energy
• Do it when lots of glucose → stimulate insulin to remove glucose out of blood
system
• Happens in all organism (with our without O2) (universal pathway of glucose
catabolism
• Conversion of one glucose molecule into two 3-C pyruvate molecules
• What metabolic conditions turn the pathway on and off?
• What are the control points for regulating the pathway?
o Reactance, products and enzyme name of each regulatory step
o Additional regulatory molecules involved (vitamins, cofactors)
o Make sure you know how every step that makes or uses ATP
Connection to Other Pathways
1. The glycolytic pathway may be considered as the preliminary step before
complete oxidation.
2. The glycolytic pathway provides carbon skeletons for synthesis of non-
essential amino acids as well as glycerol part of fat.
3. Most of the reactions of the glycolytic pathway are reversible, which are also
used for gluconeogenesis.
Preparatory Phase – 5 steps
• Energy consuming
• Phosphorylation of glucose (addition of phosphate) and its
• 1 glucose + 2 ATP → 2 glyceraldehyde-3-P + 2 ADP
• Reactions
o 2 phosphorylations (1,3)
▪ Irreversible
▪ ATP: substrate
▪ Good point for regulation to occur
o 2 isomerizations (2, 5)
o 1 aldol cleavage (4)
Why ATP is required for preparatory steps of glycolysis
• 2 ATP is needed to power glycolysis and raise glucose to a higher, more
unstable, energy state.
Steps
1. Phosphorylation of Glucose
• Enzyme: hexokinase
o Uses ATP energy source → adds phosphate molecule
o Works more efficiently at lower glucose concentration (in
skeletal muscle)
o Allosterically inhibited by G-6-P
• Traps glucose in cells
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o Glucose-6
o -phosphate can’t movie (stuck) due to phosphate
• Cofactor: Mg2+
• -ve ∆G’˚ (exothermic)
o Highly thermodynamically favourable/irreversible
2. Phosphohexose Isomerization
• +ve∆G’˚ (endothermic)
o Slightly thermodynamically unfavourable/reversible
• Cofactor: Mg2+
• Product concentration kept low to drive forward
3. Priming Phosphorylation
• Enzyme: Phosphofructokinase-1 (PFK-1)
o Highly regulated
▪ By ATP, fructose-2-6 biphosphate and other
metabolites
• Cofactor: Mg2+
• Uses energy of ATP
• -ve ∆G’˚ (exothermic)
o Highly thermodynamically favourable/irreversible
o Spontaneous reaction
4. Aldol Cleavage of F-1, 6-bP
• Largely +ve∆G’˚ (endothermic)
o Thermodynamically unfavourable/reversible
• GAP concentration is low to pull reaction forward
5. Triose Phosphate Interconversion
• DHAP GAP
o For generating ATP
• Completes preparatory phase, rapid
• +ve∆G’˚ (endothermic)
o Thermodynamically unfavourable/reversible
Pay Off Phase – 5 steps
• Each reaction in pay off phase occurs twice per glucose molecule
• Outputs/Net gain of:
o 4 ATP
▪ ATP generated by substrate-level phosphorylation
o 2 NADH + H+
o Two pyruvate molecules
6. Oxidation of GAP
• First energy yielding step in glycolysis
• Enzyme: glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase
• Cofactors: NAD+ and 2Pi
o Oxidising agent – accepts electrons (reduced)
• Product: 1,3-Bisphosphoglycerate: high energy phosphate compound
o Allows net production of ATP via glycolysis
• +ve∆G’˚ (endothermic)
o Thermodynamically unfavourable/reversible
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Document Summary
Anaerobic cellular respiration: does not break down glucose as completely as aerobic cellular respiration does, get less energy released, first undergoes glycolysis then different between plants and animals, when oxygen not present, pyruvate is converted via anaerobic pathway. Alcohol is toxic to plants and cannot accumulate. Lactic acid causes muscle cramps and soreness in tissue. C6h12o6 2ch3ch(oh)cooh + 2 atp: lactate (active skeletal muscles, ethanol (microorganism) Alcohol fermentation: co2 is removed from pyruvate, creating acetaldehyde, nadh gives a proton to acetaldehyde, creating ethanol, therefore, the produces of alcohol fermentation are 6co2, ethanol and 2atp. 2ch3ch2oh + co2 + 2 atp: during strenuous activity, cells initiate anaerobic respiration, lactate may accumulate in muscles and decrease the ph, when rest occurs and oxygen demands of cells are met, pyruvate goes through. Preparatory phase 5 steps: energy consuming, phosphorylation of glucose (addition of phosphate) and its, 1 glucose + 2 atp 2 glyceraldehyde-3-p + 2 adp, reactions, 2 phosphorylations (1,3)