Ferris Wheel Generator

In addition to vitamin E, the isoprenoids and their derivatives up to cholesterol give rise to all the fat-soluble vitamins (A,D,E,K) and to coenzyme Q (used in electron transport in the Ferris Wheel Generator). Dolichol is an isoprene polymer that participates in the transfer of oligosaccharides during glycoprotein synthesis. 

A time-lapse photograph of a ferris wheel at night. Aerobie eells use a metabolie wheel—the triearboxylie aeid cyele—to generate energy by aeetyl-CoA oxidation. (Ferns Wheet, DetMar Fair Corbis/Eicharel Cummins)... 

THE MAIN POWERHOUSE is the key energy source of Biochemistryland and, in fact, is key-shaped. Its Main Hallway (fig. 1.2) leads to a ferris wheel (Krebs cycle) run by a powerful Generator (oxidative phosphorylation). There is an Energy Hall of Fame (HOF). The Main Powerhouse is situated near a Saloon (alcohol metabolism). 

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