Selected Case Studies Gluconeogenesis and Fatty Acid Biosynthesis

SELECTED CASE STUDIES GLUCONEOGENESIS AND FATTY ACID BIOSYNTHESIS 

FIGURE 5.14 Conversion of pyruvate to oxaloacetate and then to phosphoenolpyruvate. 

the old, yet true, dictum that you can make fat from sugar, but you cannot make sugar from fat. 

Glucose-6-phosphatase is found only in liver and kidney, and allows these tissues to supply glucose to other organs of the body, like the brain, which have little or no reserves of carbohydrates. 

FIGURE 5.15 Transport of oxaloacetate and PEP from the mitochondria to the cytosol. 

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