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Basic glycogen structure

Includes non reducing ends and "reducing ends" on right

Glycogen breakdown (discovered by?)

•Glycogen phosphorylase discovered by Carl and Gerty Cori


•yields glucose 1-phosphate

Two step mechanism of glycogen phosphorylase reacton

1.The phosphate, in conjunction with PLP, donates a hydrogen and releases the glycogen
2. The phosphate attacks the carbocation intermediate

1.The phosphate, in conjunction with PLP (Pyridoal phosphate) Phophorylated vitamin B6, donates a hydrogen and releases the glycogen. (Makes schiff base)


2. The phosphate attacks the carbocation intermediate

How glucose-1phosphate is converted to glucose 6 phosphate w/ mechanism

Phosphoglucomutase

Phosphoglucomutase (generated by cleaving the 6 phosphate after phosphoglucokinase makes glucose 1,6 bisphosphate

Glycogen breakdown in liver

Glucose-6 phosphatase in membrane releases glucose into bloodstream

Debranching in glycogen

transferase and hydrolase in one polypeptide

transferase and hydrolase in one polypeptide

Glycogen synthesis

UDP-glucose is made by UDP glucose pyrophosphoylase, glycogen synthase gives glycogen +1 residues with retention of configuration

UDP-glucose is made by UDP glucose pyrophosphoylase, glycogen synthase gives glycogen +1 residues with retention of configuration

Branching enzyme

•Glucose alpha 1-4 linkages yields starch, not very soluble


• Glycogen has alpha 1-6 branches and is more soluble


•branching enzyme requires 11 or more glucose residues


•removes about 7 residues and transfers them to alpha 16 linkage, more than 4 residues from the next branch

Getting started with glycogen synthesis

Glycogenin,
ounce primer is made, glycogen synthase takes over

Glycogenin,


ounce primer is made, glycogen synthase takes over

Glycogen storage dieseases

• PT had enlarged liver full of glycogen, low blood glucose between meals, Glucose-6-phosphatase is defective (Von Gierke)


• PT's muscles cramp during vigorous exercise, blood lactate does not increase as much as in normal ppl --> defective muscle glycogen phosphorylase (McArdle), or defective PFK-1 (Tarui)

Regulation of glycogen degradation

Allosteric control of muscle glycogen phosphorylase

Allosteric control of muscle glycogen phosphorylase

Hormone control of glycogen phosphorylase

•Muscle: epinephrine


•liver: glucagon


•Epiniphrine or glucagon bind to receptors


Receptor•hormone stimulates Gs-protein•GDP -->Gs-protein•GTP which stimulates adenyl cyclase, which makes cAMP PKA, which phosphorylates certain Sers (one such serine is on phosphylase-b kinase-SerOH

Reversal of glycogen hormone cascade

Regulation protein phosphatase 1

These phosphorylations must revert spontaneously

These phosphorylations must revert spontaneously

Regulation of phosphorylase kinase by Ca++ release

Glycogen phosphorylase of liver as a glucose sensor

When glucose binds to allosteric sites, the phosphorylase becomes inactive (b)

When glucose binds to allosteric sites, the phosphorylase becomes inactive (b)

Epinepherine hormone cascade in heart (glycolysis and glycogenolysis)

Glycogen synthase is turned off by the hormone cascade (phorphoylated), also phosphorylated by other kinases

Glycogen synthase is turned off by the hormone cascade (phorphoylated), also phosphorylated by other kinases

Coordinate control of glycogen metabolism

Citric acid cycle overview (discovery)

•O2 --> CO2 occurs in muscle but not cell extract
•Centrifugation-> occurs in mitochondria

•O2 --> CO2 occurs in muscle but not cell extract


•Centrifugation-> occurs in mitochondria

Lipoic acid

in amide linkage to a lysine side chain

in amide linkage to a lysine side chain

Citric acid cycle cofactors overview

Pyruvate+ NAD+ CoA 
--> CO2 + acetyl-CoA _ NADH + H+
Cofactors: TPP, lipoate, NAD+, FAD, CoA

Pyruvate+ NAD+ CoA


--> CO2 + acetyl-CoA _ NADH + H+


Cofactors: TPP, lipoate, NAD+, FAD, CoA

Arsenic poisoning in citric acid cycle

Citrate synthase reaction mech

1
Acetyl-CoA (enol) + Oxaloacetate (with H2O) -->
Citrate (with CoA-SH

1


Acetyl-CoA (enol) + Oxaloacetate (with H2O) -->


Citrate (with CoA-SH


Aconitase reaction

2
Iron sulfer cluster in aconitase pulls off OH- from C2 and transfers it to C3

2


Iron sulfer cluster in aconitase pulls off OH- from C2 and transfers it to C3

Isocitrate dehydrogenase reaction

3
Loss of one CO2, coordinated by Mn2+

3


Loss of one CO2, coordinated by Mn2+

alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase reaction

4
It is like pyruvate dehydrogenase reaction requiring NAD+, CoA, TPP, lipoate, FAD

4


It is like pyruvate dehydrogenase reaction requiring NAD+, CoA, TPP, lipoate, FAD

Conserved mechanism for oxidative decarboxylation

Succinyl-CoA synthetase reaction

5 
•converts succinyl-CoA to Succinate with GDP+ Pi to GTP and CoA-SH as a biproduct
•GTP+ ADP -->
GDP + ATP

5


•converts succinyl-CoA to Succinate with GDP+ Pi to GTP and CoA-SH as a biproduct


•GTP+ ADP -->


GDP + ATP


Succinate dehyrdogenase reaction

6
• Succinate --> 
Fumerate
•FAD oxidized to FADH2

6


• Succinate -->


Fumerate


•FAD oxidized to FADH2

Fumerase reaction

7 
Has Carbanion transition state

7


Has Carbanion transition state

Malate dehydrogenase reaction

8
Oxidizes NAD+ to NADH + H+

8


Oxidizes NAD+ to NADH + H+

Nine enzymes needed in citric acid cycle

1 Citrate synthase 6 nucleoside


2 Aconitase diphosphate kinase


3 isocitrate 7 Succinate


dehyrdogenase dehyrdogenase


4 a-ketoglutarate 8 Fumerase


dehyrdogenase 9 malate


5 succinyl-CoA dehydrogenase


Comprehensive citric acid cycle

"officer can I keep selling sugar for money" = 
Oxaloacetate, citrate, isocitrate, ketoglutarate, succinyl-CoA, succinate, fumerate, malate

"officer can I keep selling sugar for money" =


Oxaloacetate, citrate, isocitrate, ketoglutarate, succinyl-CoA, succinate, fumerate, malate

An asymmetric enzme...

can bind a non-chiral compound asymetrically, they become chiral on the surface of the enzyme
•compounds of this type are called prochiral

can bind a non-chiral compound asymetrically, they become chiral on the surface of the enzyme


•compounds of this type are called prochiral

Why reactions of NAD+ can get H on one side or the other

Why is oxidation of Acetyl-CoA a cycle

•larger intermediates are easily bound and deformed by enzme surfaces, whereas acetate would be difficult to grab and manipulate.


•Cycle allows the cell to make important molecules.


-a-ketoglutarate --> Glutamate


-oxaloacetate --> Aspartate


origin of oxaloacetate in TCA cycle

•produced during gluconeogenesis


• allosteric activator is acetyl-CoA, (which accumulates from breakdown of fatty acids)

•produced during gluconeogenesis


• allosteric activator is acetyl-CoA, (which accumulates from breakdown of fatty acids)

Biotin

A vitamin


-requirement small for humans except for ppl who eat a lot of egg whites


-avidin binds to biotin to prevent bacteria growth

Reactions that fill up the citric acid cycle

Anaplerotic

Anaplerotic

Reactions drain the citric acid cycle

Cataplerotic

Cataplerotic

Regulation of TCA

Pyruvate dehydrogenase reaction

Pyruvate dehydrogenase reaction

Covalent modification also regulates pyruvate dehyrogenase

Regulation of isocitrate dehyrdogenase and communication between pathways

Reminder

make notecards of involved systems to study afk

Palmitate

Hexadecanoic acid

Hexadecanoic acid

Glycerol

Triacyl glycerol

6 times better than carbs at storing energy, more reduced, not hydrated,


GLY=2,500kJ, lasts for a day


Fat = 420,000kJ lasts for months


Structure of adipocyte

Release of fatty acids from triacylglycerols in the adipocyte

1904 Franz Knoop

Fatty acid --> fatty acyl-CoA

Carnitine

Entry of fatty acids into mitochondria

A carnitine acyl transferase reaction

A carnitine acyl transferase reaction

Acyl-carnitine/carnitine shuttle

ß-oxidation scheme, part 1

ß-oxidation scheme, part 2

ß-oxidation scheme, part 3

-Entry of electrons into electron transport and oxidative phosphorylation


-FADH2--> electron transferring flavoprotein--> 1.5 ATP


-NADH--> Complex I 


--> 2.5 ATP

-Entry of electrons into electron transport and oxidative phosphorylation


-FADH2--> electron transferring flavoprotein--> 1.5 ATP


-NADH--> Complex I


--> 2.5 ATP

Regulation of fatty acid degradation and synthesis

First step: ATP + CO2 + Acetyl-CoA carboylase --> ADP + Pi + Malonyl CA (inhibitor of carnitine acyl transferase I) ->->-> Fatty acids

First step: ATP + CO2 + Acetyl-CoA carboylase --> ADP + Pi + Malonyl CA (inhibitor of carnitine acyl transferase I) ->->-> Fatty acids

Diseases of fatty acid degradation (MCADD)

Acyl-CoA dehydrogenases:


1 for long chains 12-18


1 for medium chains 2-14


1 for short chains 4-8


- Medium Chain AD deficiency, MCADD, Lys304Glu--> 10%SIDS --> high levels of octanoic acid in blood, dicarboxylic acids in urine


Tx: low fat, high carb diet

Diseases of fatty acid degradation (Jamaican vomiting sickness)

Convulsions, coma, and death caused by Unripe Aackee fruit that contains hypoglycin 

Convulsions, coma, and death caused by Unripe Aackee fruit that contains hypoglycin

Degradation of fatty acids with odd numbers of carbons

Vitamin B-12

Arrangement at the rxn center of Vitamin B12

Mechanism of C and H rearrangements (B12)

Vitamin B12 disease

Vitamin B12 is made by bacteria and used by people


Plants do not use B12 because it is photosensitive


People absorb B12 through intenstine by a protein called intrinsic factor, geriatrics are deficient in intrinsic factor --> get pernicious anemia, need B12 injections

Intrinsic factor found by?

1918 Hooper: Raw liver cures pernicious anemia in PTs


1925 Whipple: induced anemia in dogs, cured with diet of raw liver


1926 Minot and Murphy: showed that eating 1/2 lb of raw liver /day cured pernicous anemia


1936 Castle: PTs w/ Stomachs removed --> pernicious anemia, vomitus cured PTs

Extrinsic factor

1947 Shorb & Flokers: Factor purified from liver allows growth of bacterium on minimal salts and glucose


1956 Hodgkin: Extrinsic factor = Vitamin B12



Intrinsic factor ID'd w/ radioactive Cobalt, binds to Co, Vit B12 used by humans in methylmalonyl-Coa Mutase and methionine synthase

Glycerol into glycolysis

Starvation, diabetes -->

Accumulation of "ketone bodies"


In liver there is high [acetyl-CoA] and low [oxaloacetate]

Accumulation of "ketone bodies"


In liver there is high [acetyl-CoA] and low [oxaloacetate]

origin of ketone bodies (1)

Origin of ketone bodies 2

ß-hydroxybutyrate travells to the brain

ß-hydroxybutyrate travells to the brain

ß-hydroxybutyrate as fuel in TCA cycle

Oxaloacetate may come from protein breakdown


aspartate--> oxaloacetate

Oxaloacetate may come from protein breakdown


aspartate--> oxaloacetate

High levels of ß-hydroxybutyrate reduce blood pH (Acidosis)

Extreme acidosis is called ketosis which can cause coma and death, if dieting, eat some carbs to provide oxaloacetate

Essential AAs

V,I,L(branched chain)


F, W (aromatic)


T, H, K, M



Amino acids cannot be stored


Excess amino acids --> keto acids and are used as fuel

AA digestion methods

Stomach: pepsin /F/Y/W


Small intestine: trypsin K/R/


Chymotrypsin F/W/Y/


Carboxypeptidase releases AA from C-terminus


Aminopeptidase releases AAs from the N-terminase

Enzyme catalyzed transaminations

Transamination mech pt. 1

Transamination mechanism pt. 2

Includes nitrogen attack and schiff base

Includes nitrogen attack and schiff base

Transamination mechanism pt. 3

Glutamate dehyrdogenase reaction

Glu+NAD(P)+ + H20--> alpha-ketoglutarate + NADPH + NH4+, Driven by NH4 removal

Glu+NAD(P)+ + H20--> alpha-ketoglutarate + NADPH + NH4+, Driven by NH4 removal

Delivery of amino groups to the liver for the urea cycle

Delivery of alanine to liver

alanine aminotransferase

alanine aminotransferase

Urea synthesis in liver stimulated by?

Stimulted 10-fold in excess of molar amount of certain added compounds

Stimulted 10-fold in excess of molar amount of certain added compounds

Overall scheme of urea cycle

Reactions of urea cycle

-Carbomoyl phosphate synthetase I


-Ornithine transcarbamoylase


-Argininosuccinate


-Argininosuccinase, arginase

Carbamoyl phosphate synthetase I

Ornithine transcarbamoylase

Arginosuccinate synthetase

Argininosuccinase

Keto-amino cycle

Carbamoyl phosphate synthetase I deficiency

leads to high [NH4+] in blood. Tx: Low protein diet, alternative nitrogen excretion

leads to high [NH4+] in blood. Tx: Low protein diet, alternative nitrogen excretion

Argininosuccinate Acidemia

argininosuccinase deficiency, argininosuccinate accumulates and is excreted Arginine is depleted


Tx: Low protein diet + arginine

Big picture of urinary system pt. 1

Big picture of urinary system pt. 2

Diseases in converting breakdown of AA

Alkaptonuria- black urine (recessive traits) Homogentisate accumulates, gives arthritis late in life (know mechanism?) Missing Homogentisate dioxygenase


Phenylketonuria- Urine+ Fe3+ --> olive green, PTs have high levels phenylpyruvate Tx: Low Phe diet, no aspartame (D-F-methyl-ester)


Phenylalanine is defective in PKU, Phe competes with other AAs in nerve cells


Branched chain AAs pt 1

Branched chain AAs pt 2

Patricia Stallings case

MMA responsible for poisoning


Tx: diet low in fatty acids with odd numbers of carbons, branched chain amino acids, and methionine

Methionine metabolism

SAM donates methyl groups

Can also donate methyls to DNA protecting it

Can also donate methyls to DNA protecting it

Regeneration of SAM

Degradation of methionine contributes to MMA

Ox Phos


Cytochrome peaks

c types: 550nm


b types: 560nm


a types: 600nm

order of reduction of cytochromes

cyt b, cyt c1 cytc, cyt a, O2

Coenzyme Q mechanism

Last discovered electron carriers

Iron-sulfur centers, Oxidation states detected by EPR

COMPLEX I

NADH: ubiquinone oxidoreductase 


NADH+5H+N+Q>NAD+ +QH2+4H+P

NADH: ubiquinone oxidoreductase


NADH+5H+N+Q>NAD+ +QH2+4H+P

COMPLEX II (succinate dehydrogenase)

No H+ is pumped across the inner membrane. No ATP is synthesized. Mutations in Heme b allow more Q- to donate electrons to •O2 --> superoxide radical--> tumors of the head and neck (hereditary paraganglioma)

No H+ is pumped across the inner membrane. No ATP is synthesized. Mutations in Heme b allow more Q- to donate electrons to •O2 --> superoxide radical--> tumors of the head and neck (hereditary paraganglioma)

Fatty-acyl-CoA dehydrogenase

No pumping of H+ No ATP

No pumping of H+ No ATP

COMPLEX III (Cytochrome bc complex = Ubiquinone: cytochrome c oxidoreductase)

Electrons will pass from QH2, a two-electron carrier to cyt c, a one-electron carrier

Electrons will pass from QH2, a two-electron carrier to cyt c, a one-electron carrier

Complex III and the Q cycle

Complex IV, Cytochrome c oxidase

4 cyt c (red) = 8 H+(N) + O2 --> 4 cyt c (ox) + 4H+(p) + 2H2O

4 cyt c (red) = 8 H+(N) + O2 --> 4 cyt c (ox) + 4H+(p) + 2H2O

F fragment ATPase

F_1 (upper) has 3 equivalent has 3 equivalent alpha-beta units and it makes ATP F_0 (oligomycin-sensitive, lowers) pumps H+ and causes the asymmetric gamma center stalk to turn. The alpha-beta subunits of F_1 bind to ATP or ADP + Pi, or nothing

Symporter for Pi and protons

membrane protein that transports the species in the same direction

Poisons for electron transport and ATP synthesis

Rotenone (complex I)


antimycin A (complex III)


cyanide (complex IV)


oligomycin B (F-ATPase)


bongkerekic acid/ atracytlocide for adenine nucleotide translocase

Genetic diseases of mitochondria

hereditary paraganglioma


Leber's hereditary optical neuropathy (LHON)


myoclonic epilepsy and ragged red fiber disease (MERRF)



Creation and destruction of superoxide radicals

ubiquinone (coenzyme Q)

Glutathione (gamma-glutamyl-cysteinyl-glycine)

2,4 dinitrophenol

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