ciznet Posted February 11, 2013 Share Posted February 11, 2013 (edited) Hello house! Please i need to juxtapose the amount of ATP that will be produced or gained for one molecule of Apartame a diabetic patient takes instead of one molecule of sugar. It is part of my Mtech course work. Thanks Edited February 11, 2013 by ciznet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BabcockHall Posted February 11, 2013 Share Posted February 11, 2013 Do you know anything about the classification of aminoacids as ketogenic versus glucogenic? If you don't, this will be a very difficult problem. However, I can suggest a starting point: What do you think will be the fate of the carbon skeletons of aspartate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciznet Posted February 13, 2013 Author Share Posted February 13, 2013 Do you know anything about the classification of aminoacids as ketogenic versus glucogenic? If you don't, this will be a very difficult problem. However, I can suggest a starting point: What do you think will be the fate of the carbon skeletons of aspartate? Yeah thanks! Aspartate will enter TCA cycle via oxaloacetate. Please i really want to know how many ATP it will yield after it enters and why? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BabcockHall Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 I don't know the exact number. Some oxaloacetate is simply a catalyst, as are all of the tricarboxylic and dicarboxylic acids of the TCA cycle (citrate, succinate, etc.). However, the way in which excess oxaloacetate could be consumed by the TCA cycle involves first converting it to phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP). Why don't you attempt a calculation based on that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciznet Posted February 15, 2013 Author Share Posted February 15, 2013 Thanks I'll work on it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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