The fourth step in glycolysis employs an enzyme, aldolase, to cleave 1,6-bisphosphate into two three-carbon isomers: dihydroxyacetone-phosphate and glyceraldehydephosphate. Step 5. In the fifth step, an isomerase transforms the dihydroxyacetone-phosphate into its isomer, glyceraldehydephosphate. Thus, the pathway will continue with two molecules of a single isomer. At this point in the pathway, there is a net investment of energy from two ATP molecules in the breakdown of one glucose molecule.
So far, glycolysis has cost the cell two ATP molecules and produced two small, three-carbon sugar molecules. Both of these molecules will proceed through the second half of the pathway where sufficient energy will be extracted to pay back the two ATP molecules used as an initial investment while also producing a profit for the cell of two additional ATP molecules and two even higher-energy NADH molecules.
Step 6. The sugar is then phosphorylated by the addition of a second phosphate group, producing 1,3-bisphosphoglycerate. Note that the second phosphate group does not require another ATP molecule. Here, again, there is a potential limiting factor for this pathway. If oxygen is available in the system, the NADH will be oxidized readily, though indirectly, and the high-energy electrons from the hydrogen released in this process will be used to produce ATP.
Step 7. In the seventh step, catalyzed by phosphoglycerate kinase an enzyme named for the reverse reaction , 1,3-bisphosphoglycerate donates a high-energy phosphate to ADP, forming one molecule of ATP. This is an example of substrate-level phosphorylation. A carbonyl group on the 1,3-bisphosphoglycerate is oxidized to a carboxyl group, and 3-phosphoglycerate is formed. Step 8.
In the eighth step, the remaining phosphate group in 3-phosphoglycerate moves from the third carbon to the second carbon, producing 2-phosphoglycerate an isomer of 3-phosphoglycerate. The enzyme catalyzing this step is a mutase isomerase. Step 9. Enolase catalyzes the ninth step.
This enzyme causes 2-phosphoglycerate to lose water from its structure; this is a dehydration reaction, resulting in the formation of a double bond that increases the potential energy in the remaining phosphate bond and produces phosphoenolpyruvate PEP. Step Many enzymes in enzymatic pathways are named for the reverse reactions since the enzyme can catalyze both forward and reverse reactions these may have been described initially by the reverse reaction that takes place in vitro, under non-physiological conditions.
Glycolysis starts with one molecule of glucose and ends with two pyruvate pyruvic acid molecules, a total of four ATP molecules, and two molecules of NADH. Two ATP molecules were used in the first half of the pathway to prepare the six-carbon ring for cleavage, so the cell has a net gain of two ATP molecules and 2 NADH molecules for its use. If the cell cannot catabolize the pyruvate molecules further via the citric acid cycle or Krebs cycle , it will harvest only two ATP molecules from one molecule of glucose.
Mature mammalian red blood cells do not have mitochondria and are not capable of aerobic respiration, the process in which organisms convert energy in the presence of oxygen.
Instead, glycolysis is their sole source of ATP. Therefore, if glycolysis is interrupted, the red blood cells lose their ability to maintain their sodium-potassium pumps, which require ATP to function, and eventually, they die. These reactions take place in specialized protein complexes located in the inner membrane of the mitochondria of eukaryotic organisms and on the inner part of the cell membrane of prokaryotic organisms.
The energy of the electrons is harvested and used to generate a electrochemical gradient across the inner mitochondrial membrane. The potential energy of this gradient is used to generate ATP. The entirety of this process is called oxidative phosphorylation. The electron transport chain Figure 4. Oxygen continuously diffuses into plants for this purpose. In animals, oxygen enters the body through the respiratory system.
Electron transport is a series of chemical reactions that resembles a bucket brigade in that electrons are passed rapidly from one component to the next, to the endpoint of the chain where oxygen is the final electron acceptor and water is produced. There are four complexes composed of proteins, labeled I through IV in Figure 4.
The electron transport chain is present in multiple copies in the inner mitochondrial membrane of eukaryotes and in the plasma membrane of prokaryotes.
In each transfer of an electron through the electron transport chain, the electron loses energy, but with some transfers, the energy is stored as potential energy by using it to pump hydrogen ions across the inner mitochondrial membrane into the intermembrane space, creating an electrochemical gradient.
Cyanide inhibits cytochrome c oxidase, a component of the electron transport chain. If cyanide poisoning occurs, would you expect the pH of the intermembrane space to increase or decrease? What affect would cyanide have on ATP synthesis? As they are passed from one complex to another there are a total of four , the electrons lose energy, and some of that energy is used to pump hydrogen ions from the mitochondrial matrix into the intermembrane space. In the fourth protein complex, the electrons are accepted by oxygen, the terminal acceptor.
The oxygen with its extra electrons then combines with two hydrogen ions, further enhancing the electrochemical gradient, to form water. If there were no oxygen present in the mitochondrion, the electrons could not be removed from the system, and the entire electron transport chain would back up and stop.
The mitochondria would be unable to generate new ATP in this way, and the cell would ultimately die from lack of energy. This is the reason we must breathe to draw in new oxygen.
In the electron transport chain, the free energy from the series of reactions just described is used to pump hydrogen ions across the membrane. Hydrogen ions diffuse through the inner membrane through an integral membrane protein called ATP synthase Figure 4.
This complex protein acts as a tiny generator, turned by the force of the hydrogen ions diffusing through it, down their electrochemical gradient from the intermembrane space, where there are many mutually repelling hydrogen ions to the matrix, where there are few. This flow of hydrogen ions across the membrane through ATP synthase is called chemiosmosis. Chemiosmosis Figure 4.
The result of the reactions is the production of ATP from the energy of the electrons removed from hydrogen atoms. In addition, both plant and animal cells store energy by shunting glucose into fat synthesis pathways. One gram of fat contains nearly six times the energy of the same amount of glycogen, but the energy from fat is less readily available than that from glycogen. Still, each storage mechanism is important because cells need both quick and long-term energy depots. Fats are stored in droplets in the cytoplasm; adipose cells are specialized for this type of storage because they contain unusually large fat droplets.
Humans generally store enough fat to supply their cells with several weeks' worth of energy Figure 7. Figure 7: Examples of energy storage within cells. A In this cross section of a rat kidney cell, the cytoplasm is filled with glycogen granules, shown here labeled with a black dye, and spread throughout the cell G , surrounding the nucleus N.
B In this cross-section of a plant cell, starch granules st are present inside a chloroplast, near the thylakoid membranes striped pattern. C In this amoeba, a single celled organism, there is both starch storage compartments S , lipid storage L inside the cell, near the nucleus N. Qian H. Letcher P. A Bamri-Ezzine, S. All rights reserved. This page appears in the following eBook.
Aa Aa Aa. Cell Energy and Cell Functions. Figure 3: The release of energy from sugar. Compare the stepwise oxidation left with the direct burning of sugar right. Figure 5: An ATP molecule. ATP consists of an adenosine base blue , a ribose sugar pink and a phosphate chain.
Figure 6: Metabolism in a eukaryotic cell: Glycolysis, the citric acid cycle, and oxidative phosphorylation. Glycolysis takes place in the cytoplasm. Cells need energy to accomplish the tasks of life. Beginning with energy sources obtained from their environment in the form of sunlight and organic food molecules, eukaryotic cells make energy-rich molecules like ATP and NADH via energy pathways including photosynthesis, glycolysis, the citric acid cycle, and oxidative phosphorylation.
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