4. During prolonged fasting and intense exercise, the product of fat breakdown in adipose tissue, glycerol, is one of the gluconeogenesis substrates. How can glycerol be involved in gluconcogenesis? How many moles of glycerol and ATP are required to synthesize I mole of glucose? To answer:

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4. During prolonged fasting and intense exercise, the product of fat breakdown
in adipose tissue, glycerol, is one of the gluconeogenesis substrates. How can
glycerol be involved in gluconcogenesis? How many moles of glycerol and ATP
are required to synthesize I mole of glucose? To answer:
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Chapter 6. Carbohydrate metabolism
a) write a diagram for the glucose synthesis from glycerol and name the reactions
occurring with ATP consumption;
b) name the hormones that stimulate gluconcogenesis and describe the
mechanism of signal transduction by these hormones;
c) explain the role of the bifunctional enzyme in the regulation of gluconeoge-
nesis.
Transcribed Image Text:4. During prolonged fasting and intense exercise, the product of fat breakdown in adipose tissue, glycerol, is one of the gluconeogenesis substrates. How can glycerol be involved in gluconcogenesis? How many moles of glycerol and ATP are required to synthesize I mole of glucose? To answer: 288 Chapter 6. Carbohydrate metabolism a) write a diagram for the glucose synthesis from glycerol and name the reactions occurring with ATP consumption; b) name the hormones that stimulate gluconcogenesis and describe the mechanism of signal transduction by these hormones; c) explain the role of the bifunctional enzyme in the regulation of gluconeoge- nesis.
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