Biochemistry 2280A Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Triglyceride, Glycogen Phosphorylase, Oxaloacetic Acid

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Chapter 13: how cells obtain energy from food. The breakdown and utilization of sugars and fats. If a fuel molecule such as glucose were oxidized to co2 and h20 in a single step, it would release an amount of energy many times larger than any carrier molecule could capture. Instead, cells use enzymes to carry out the oxidation of sugars in a highly controlled series of rxns. Cells degrade each glucose molecule step by step, paying out energy in small packets to activated carriers by means of coupled reactions. In this way, much of the energy released by the breakdown of glucose is saved in the high energy bonds of atp and other activated carriers which can then be made available to do useful work for the cell. Animal cells make atp in 2 ways. First, certain energetically favourable enzyme-catalyzed reactions involved in the breakdown of foods are directly coupled to the energetically unfavourable reaction adp + pi >atp.

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