BIOL108 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cellular Respiration, Cellulose, Methionine

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BIOL108
WEEK 3
LECTURE 1
- Everything requires energy To grow and reproduce
- Energy originate from the sun
- 2% of energy are captured by plants
- Injected as food and out as heat
- Metabolism made up of many little things to cause a reaction
- For a reaction to proceed, need a kick-start = Energy of activation
- Where cells work their magic in the enzymes
- Catalyze -> Lower the energy
- Catalyze and Enzyme is the same thing
- Enzymes are proteins
- Allow a substrate (sugar) to bind
- Lower the activation to the drive the reaction
- Enzyme has a 3D structure Complex structure
- Catalyze converts hydrogen peroxide into water and oxygen - 40000000 times per second
- Easy to tell the function of an enzyme based on their name
TEMPERATURE
- Works best at 37 degrees Celsius
- Below or above that temperature will denature the enzyme -> when they change structure
pH
- Testing the acidic and basic of an enzyme
- Works best at optimum pH
- Suited to the environment it operates in
- More molecules and more enzyme
- Cycling matter and cycling energy through organs
- Energy used to break glucose -> ATP
- Many requires ATP
- Aerobic cellular respiration To get ATP
CO2 + H2O (Sun captured by photosynthesis) --> Cellulose + O2 (Released by burning) --> CO2 + H2O
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BIOL108
LECTURE 2
AEROBIC CELLULAR RESPIRATION
- All animals and plants carry out this process
- Oxidising glucose into carbon dioxide and water with the production of ATP
- Some bacteria, fungi and protozoa -> Anaerobic
- Killed by exposure to oxygen
- Break glucose down to alcohols and organic acids = Fermentation
GLYCOLYSIS
- First stage in the breakdown of glucose
- Occurs in the cytoplasm
- Does not require oxygen
- A molecule of glucose (6 carbons) is broken down into 2 molecules of pyruvate (3 carbons each)
- Net production of 2 ATP molecules
GLYCOLYSIS/FERMENTATION
- Absence of oxygen additional step reduces pyruvate to lactate, or alcohol and carbon dioxide
- Glycolysis plus the additional step = fermentation
- Yeasts ferment glucose to alcohol = beer and wine
- Lactic acid bacteria ferment glucose to lactic acid = yoghurt
- Muscle cells also produce lactic acid during heavy exercise; not enough oxygen can be
transported into muscle cells
- Lactate is converted back to pyruvate in the liver
MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTION
- Transition reaction (pyruvate bound to coenzyme A): occurs in the Matrix of the mitochondrion
- Krebs cycle (completing the oxidation to CO2): occurs in the matrix
- Electron transport chain: embedded in the cristae; pumps hydrogen ions into the
intermembrane space
AFTER GLYCOLYSIS
- Glycolysis: Occurs in cytoplasm, further breakdown of pyruvate occurs in the mitochondria
- Transition reaction: Pyruvate enters mitochondria, converted to an acetyl group with liberation
of carbon dioxide
- Krebs cycle: In the mitochondrial matrix CO2, ATP, NADH and FADH2 are generated
- Electron transport system: On the mitochondrial cristae, more ATP is generated
THE TRANSITION REACTION
- Imports pyruvate into the mitochondrion
- Converting the products of glycolysis into acetyl CoA
- Enters the next stage of the process = Krebs cycle
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THE KREBS CYCLE
- The carbon atoms in acetyl CoA are oxidised to carbon dioxide
- ATP is generated
- Electrons and hydrogen atoms are transferred to NAD+ or FAD to generated NADH and FADH2
ELECTRON TRANSPORT SYSTEM: HYDROGEN ION PUMP
- Coenzymes NAD+ and FAD accept electrons and hydrogen atoms during the Krebs cycle
- Yield these up to the electron transport system
- As electrons move through the transport system, hydrogen ions are pumped into the inter-
membrane space: creating a concentration and electric gradient
- Oxygen is final electron acceptor
ELECTRON TRANSPORT SYSTEM: ATP PRODUCTION
- Relies on the gradient of hydrogen ion concentration between the matrix and the
intermembrane space
- ATP molecules diffuse out of the matrix by way of a channel protein
- Hydrogen ions flow from high concentration in the intermembrane space through the ATP
synthase complex
- Energy released allows synthesis of ATP from ADP
FINAL YIELD OF ATP FROM AERPBIC CELLULAR RESPIRATION
- Complete oxidation of glucose to CO2 and H2O = 686 kcal
- Energy in terminal phosphate bonds of 38 ATP = 278 kcal
- Aerobic respiration recovers 40% of the available energy; rest is lost as heat
- Glucose enters the cell, goes through glycolysis to produce pyruvate generates 2 NADH and 2
ATP
- Pyruvate goes into the Matrix of the mitochondria, runs around the Krebs cycle generates
more NADH, FADH and ATP
- NADH and FADH is fed into the cristae
- 38 ATP is generated from a single molecule of glucose: 9 times more energy efficient than
fermentation
WHERE FOOD GOES
- Virtually anything we eat goes through the same process
- Fats can break down in to fatty acids and glycerol molecules
- Carbohydrates breaks down into simple sugars
- Proteins breaks down into amino acids; where some are kept cannot be synthesized
- Excess amino acids get secreted as urea
- All the food we eat gets generated into the system to produce energy
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Everything requires energy to grow and reproduce. Metabolism made up of many little things to cause a reaction. Co2 + h2o (sun captured by photosynthesis) --> cellulose + o2 (released by burning) --> co2 + h2o. For a reaction to proceed, need a kick-start = energy of activation. Where cells work their magic in the enzymes. Catalyze and enzyme is the same thing. Catalyze converts hydrogen peroxide into water and oxygen - 40000000 times per second. Lower the activation to the drive the reaction. Enzyme has a 3d structure complex structure. Easy to tell the function of an enzyme based on their name. Below or above that temperature will denature the enzyme -> when they change structure. Testing the acidic and basic of an enzyme. Suited to the environment it operates in ph. Cycling matter and cycling energy through organs. Aerobic cellular respiration to get atp. All animals and plants carry out this process.

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