Organic Chemistry of Metabolic Pathways
Metabolic pathways allude to the arrangement of chemical catalyzed reactions that lead to the transformation of a substance into the final product. Metabolic pathways incorporate a progression of reaction where the substrate is changed continuously and the transitional metabolites are persistently recovered.
Glucogenesis
Glucogenesis is a metabolic pathway in which glucose is produced from carbon substrates that are not carbohydrates. This process is observed in plants, animals, fungi, bacteria and other micro organisms. The general definition for glucogenesis or gluconeogenesis is as follows,
Cells can also convert a-keto acids into amino acids, but because the reagents organic chemists use for this reaction are not available in cells, they carry out this reaction by a different mechanism.
a. What amino acid is obtained from the reductive
b. What amino acids are obtained from the same metabolic intermediates when the amino acids are synthesized in the laboratory?
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