Daily Newsletter February 22, 2012
Daily Challenge: Citric Acid Cycle
There is no daily topic, instead, you are to continue reflecting upon the catabolism of glucose by looking at the conversion of pyruvate into acetyl CoA and then the Citric Acid Cycle. As before, the goal is to reflect upon the reactions and come up with a way of describing them in your own words.
Things to look out for:
1) Redox reactions.
2) The use of FAD instead of NAD as an electron carrier.
3) Decarboxylation (releasing a CO2 from the reaction).
There are some special cases in TCA, and we will talk about them on Thursday.
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