Gluconeogenesis steps

FIGURE 4.59 Enzymes of the Krebs Cycle and removal of malate for gluconeogenesis. The enzymes that catalyze each Step of the Krebs cycle are named all are mitochondria]. The section symbol ) indicates the two points in the Krebs cycle, and a gluconeogenesis step occurring in the cytoplasm, where carbon is lost as CO -... 

The complete route of gluconeogenesis is shown in Figure 23.1, side by side with the glycolytic pathway. Gluconeogenesis employs three different reactions, catalyzed by three different enzymes, for the three steps of glycolysis that are... 

Step 1 of Figure 29.13 Carboxylation Gluconeogenesis begins with the carboxyl-afion of pyruvate to yield oxaloacetate. The reaction is catalyzed by pyruvate carboxylase and requires ATP, bicarbonate ion, and the coenzyme biotin, which acts as a carrier to transport CO2 to the enzyme active site. The mechanism is analogous to that of step 3 in fatty-acid biosynthesis (Figure 29.6), in which acetyl CoA is carboxylated to yield malonyl CoA. 

Problem 29.13 Write a mechanism for step 6 of gluconeogenesis, the reduction of 3-phospho-glyceryl phosphate with NADH/H+ to yield glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate. 

Biomolecules are synthesized as well as degraded, but the pathways for anabolism and catabolism are not the exact reverse of one another. Fatty acids are biosynthesized from acetate by an 8-step pathway, and carbohydrates are made from pyruvate by the 11-step gluconeogenesis pathway. 

Mechanism for Gluconeogenesis. Since the glycolysis involves three energetically irreversible steps at the pyruvate kinase, phosphofructokinase, and hexokinase levels, the production of glucose from simple noncarbohydrate materials, for example, pyruvate or lactate, by a reversal of glycolysis ( from bottom upwards ) is impossible. Therefore, indirect reaction routes are to be sought for. 

GLYCOLYSIS (solid lines) and GLUCONEOGENESIS (dotted lines) share some common enzymes, but they diverge around the control steps. Major control enzymes are boxed. Signals that turn glycolysis on turn gluconeogenesis off, and vice versa. 

There are two unusual aspects to the regulation of gluconeogenesis. The first step in the reaction, the formation of oxaloacetate from pyruvate, requires the presence of acetyl-CoA. This is a check to make sure that the TCA cycle is adequately fueled. If there s not enough acetyl-CoA around, the pyruvate is needed for energy and gluconeogenesis won t happen. However, if there s sufficient acetyl-CoA, the pyruvate is shifted toward the synthesis of glucose. 

Fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase is an important rate-limiting step in gluconeogenesis. This gluconeogenic step antagonizes the opposite reaction that forms fructose-1, 6-bisphosphate from fmctose-6-phosphate and ATP... 

Most patients with pyruvate-carboxylase deficiency present with failure to thrive, developmental delay, recurrent seizures and metabolic acidosis. Lactate, pyruvate, alanine, [3-hydroxybutyrate and acetoacetate concentrations are elevated in blood and urine. Hypoglycemia is not a consistent finding despite the fact that pyruvate carboxylase is the first rate-limiting step in gluconeogenesis. 

One of the best known and well described allosteric enzymes is phosphofructo-kinase-1 (PFK-1). The interconversion offfuctose-6-phosphate (F-6-P) andF-l,6-bisP is a pivotal step in glycolysis and gluconeogenesis (Figure 3.4). 

Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (PEPCK) catalyzes a critical reaction in gluconeogenesis, which under many conditions is the rate-limiting step in the pathway. A cAlVfP response element (CRE) and a glucocorticoid response element (GRE) are each located upstream from the transcription start site. 

Propionyl CoA is converted to sucdnyl CoA, a dtric add cyde intermediate, in the two-step propionic add pathway. Because this extra sucdnyl CoA can form malate and enter the cytoplasm and gluconeogenesis, odd-carbon fatty adds represent an exception to the rule that fatty... 

The pathway for gluconeogenesis is shown in Figures 6.23 and 6.24. Some of the reactions are catalysed by the glycolytic enzymes i.e. they are the near-equilibrium. The non-equilibrium reactions of glycolysis are those catalysed by hexokinase (or glucokinase, in the liver), phosphofructokinase and pyruvate kinase and, in order to reverse these steps, separate and distinct non-equilibrium reactions are required in the gluconeogenic pathway. These reactions are ... 

Gluconeogenesis is relatively energy expensive six molecules of ATP are hydrolysed for every two molecules of lactate converted to one of glucose, but, in addition, since substrate cycles are involved in three steps in the... 

The degradation of most amino acids is anaplerotic, because it produces either intermediates of the cycle or pyruvate glucogenic amino acids see p. 180). Gluconeogenesis is in fact largely sustained by the degradation of amino acids. A particularly important anaplerotic step in animal metabolism leads from pyruvate to oxaloacetic acid. This ATP-dependent reaction is catalyzed by pyruvate... 

The first steps of actual gluconeogenesis take place in the mitochondria. The reason for this detour is the equilibrium state of the pyruvate kinase reaction (see p. 150). Even coupling to ATP hydrolysis would not be sufficient to convert pyruvate directly into phos-phoenol pyruvate (PEP). Pyruvate derived... 

Figure 6-8. Conversion of phosphoenolpyruvate to glucose during gluconeogenesis. Except for the indicated enzymes that are needed to overcome irreversible steps of glycolysis, all other steps occur by the reverse reactions catalyzed by the same enzymes as those used in glycolysis.

Figure 9-3. Fates of the carbon skeletons upon metabolism of the amino acids. Points of entry at various steps of the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle, glycolysis and gluconeogenesis are shown for the carbons skeletons of the amino acids. Note the multiple fates of the glucogenic amino acids glycine (Gly), serine (Ser), and threonine (Thr) as well as the combined glucogenic and ketogenic amino acids phenylalanine (Phe), tryptophan (Trp), and tyrosine (Tyr). Ala, alanine Cys, cysteine lie, isoleucine Leu, leucine Lys, lysine Asn, asparagine Asp, aspartate Arg, arginine His, histidine Glu, glutamate Gin, glutamine Pro, proline Val, valine Met, methionine.

The steps of the signaling pathway also distribute the signal to several response pathways in the cell (eg, glucagon action to increase glucose production by the liver is mediated by increases in both gluconeogenesis and glycogenolysis). 

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