What are the steps of energy requiring phase of glycolysis?
Posted November 6, 2023
Answer
Energy requiring phase:
- Glucose is phosphorylated at C6 by ATP through hexokinase forming glucose-6-phosphate.
- Glucose-6-phosphate is then converted to its isomer fructose-6-phosphate via phosphoglucoisomerase
- Fructose-6-phosphate is phosphorylated again at C1 by ATP through phosphofructokinase to form fructose 1,6-bisphosphate
- Fructose 1,6-bisphosphate cleaves into dihydroxyacetone phosphate (DHAP) and D-glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate (G3P); only G3P continues through the following steps of glycolysis
- DHAP is converted into G3P by the enzyme triose phosphate isomerase to continue the steps of glycolysis (all of the DHAP is converted)
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