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4: Carbohydrate Synthesis

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  • 4.1: Gluconeogenesis
    Gluconeogenesis is a metabolic pathway that results in the generation of glucose from non-carbohydrate carbon substrates such as lactate, glycerol, and glucogenic amino acids. It is one of the two main mechanisms humans and many other animals use to keep blood glucose levels from dropping too low (hypoglycemia).
  • 4.2: Synthesis of di-saccharides and polysaccharides

Thumbnail: During gluconeogenesis, pyruvate carboxylase is involved in the synthesis of phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP) from pyruvate. The resultant PEP is than transported out of the mitochondria via the Citric acid cycle carrier system, and converted into glucose by cytosolic gluconeogenic enzymes


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