BCH210H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Transferase, Isomerase, Phosphoglucomutase
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In the previous lecture we saw how soonye our canadian marathon runner utilizes atp and creatine phosphate in her her muscles. We also saw how important glycolysis pathways uses blood glucose to make the 3c molecule pyruvate and provide modest production of atp. In this lecture we will pursue the exerscise of bch of soonye who is doing one of her 10 km practice run this morning. Soonye wishes to join the canadian olympic team as marathon runner. In future lecture how pyruvate in mitochondrial oxidation provides much more. However in todays lecture we wish to explire a very important storage molecule in soonyes muscles and how this can be recruited to supply needed glucose units for glycolysis. Soonyes modest blood glucose levels cannot readily sustain her continued fuel needs as she begins her run along the boardwalk. In earlier carbohydrate lecture we discussed polysaccharides made up of many glucose units linked by glycosidic bonds.
