Chapter 8, Problem 72TQ

Summary Introduction

To review:

The fate of the labeled carbon (at second position) of glucose in the pentose phosphate pathway.

Introduction:

Glucose is the primary source of energy in a cell, which undergoes glycolysis to produce energy in the form of ATP (adenosine triphosphate) in all the living organisms. However, it can also produce a precursor of nucleic acid or nucleotides by entering an alternate pathway celled pentose phosphate pathway (PPP). There is no ATP production in this pathway, instead reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate(NADPH) and ribose-5-phosphate areproduced.