BCH 3120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Catabolism, Amphiphile, Joule
12 Jul 2018
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In any given time, an average adult will have 20 g of glucose in their body. Cis and trans fa: cis- hydrogens are on the same side, this creates a bend in the chain, trans- hydrogens are on opposite sides, most fatty acids are cis in nature. Fas and triacylglycerides (tags: a tag consists of and ester derived from glycerol with three fatty melting point and are usually solid at room temperature, ex. Mobilisation of stored fats three enzymes work together to convert tag to free fatty acids (ffa) and glycerol: adipose triglyceride lipase (atgl, hormone-sensitive lipase (hsl, monoacylglycerol lipase (mgl, note: we get fatty acid from adipocytes. We can break tag into fatty acid, which can get into the blood stream and distributed to the entire body to be used as energy. Tag, the enzyme atgl removes one fatty acid, and you get diacylglycerol. Hsl removes one etheryl glycerol and then you have monoacylglycerol.
