What happens after glycolysis

[Sconesnatcher]

After the pyruvate molecules travel into the mitochondrion what happens them? I read that they are oxidized into CO2. What happens the other 2 carbon atoms then? I also read that pyruvate is converted into acetate. Would I be right in assuming that what happens is the pyruvate is split into CO2, a 2 carbon acetate and then the loose hydrogen gets picked up by NAD+?

[WindwagonSmith]

Think this would be better asked in the Biochemisty Forum, no?

[Sconesnatcher]

No.

[luminogenics]

Yes, then the acetate is bound up by CoA, which is further oxidized into CO2 through various redox reactions, which we know as the Krebs cycle.

Edited April 26, 2009 by Sayonara³