Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Energy Release
- Oxidation of fat
- fatty acids are more important in
energy production than glycerol
- fat can feed into the citric acid via acetyl CoA
- NADH and FADH2 are produced
- Oxidation of amino acids
- more complicated as there are
20 different types
- can be converted to pyruvate and acetyl CoA
- Interconvertibility of fuels
- acetyl CoA cannot be converted to glucose
- pyruvate can be converted to
glucose via gluconeogenesis
- amino acids which give rise to citric acid cycle
intermediates can be used to make glucose