Biology 1002B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Complex, Inner Mitochondrial Membrane, Atp Synthase

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When a reaction uses atp for energy, what actually happens is that atp loses a phosphate through hydrolysis, and that phosphate is linked onto the reactant. The reactant then becomes unstable and links to the molecule it needs to become more stable. This is in a coupling reactions and the overall free energy has to be lower than 0 for it to be spontaneous in the second part. The free energy released by atp is 7. 3 kcal/mol. Anabolic reactions are not really endergonic, the coupled reactions makes it overall exergonic: individual half-reactions. G = -3. 9 kcal/mol: actual reaction mechanism. In cellular respiration, potential energy (in glucose because of lots of c-h bonds) goes through an exergonic, catabolic reaction into co2. Cellular respiration not only happens in glucose, but anything that has c-h bonds where energy can be extracted. This energy needs to be converted to a universal form atp.

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