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Consider the degradation of glucose to pyruvate by the glycolytic pathway:
Glucose + 2ADP + 2Pi + 2NAD+
Calculate
17. For part (b) of this problem, use the following reduction potentials, free energies, and nonequilibrium concentrations of reactants and products:
Consider the last two steps in the alcoholic fermentation of glucose by brewer's yeast:
Pyruvate + NADH + 2H+
a. Do you predict that
b. Calculate the nonequilibrium concentration of ethanol in yeast cells, if
pH = 7.4 and 37o C when the reactants and products are at the concentrations given above.
c. How would a drop in pH affect
d. How would an increase in intracellular CO2 levels affect
e. How would an increase in intracellular CO2 levels affect
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