{"id":225710,"date":"2025-11-23T05:10:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T11:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/biochemistry-glucose-metabolism-overview-part-ii"},"modified":"2025-11-23T05:10:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T11:10:39","slug":"biochemistry-glucose-metabolism-overview-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/biochemistry-glucose-metabolism-overview-part-ii","title":{"rendered":"Biochemistry: Glucose Metabolism Overview Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/biochemistry-glucose-metabolism-overview-part-ii.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>GLUCOSE OXIDATION EQUATION Glucose + 6 O2 \u2014 6 CO2 + 6 H2O + Energy (ATP + heat) \u2022 Most energy is generated in mitochondrial matrixCommon Abbreviations: \u2022 ATP: adenosine triphosphate \u2022 NADH: nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide \u2022 FADH2: flavin adenine dinucleotide \u2022 CoA: Coenzyme AKEY PROCESSES IN GLUCOSE OXIDATION \u2022 Glycolysis \u2022 Pyruvate decarboxylation \u2022 Citric acid cycle (also known as the Krebs\u2019 cycle and the tri-carboxylic acid (TCA) cycle) \u2022 Oxidative phosphorylation (electron transport chain &amp; chemiosmosis)CITRIC ACID CYCLE \u2022 1 glucose molecule requires 2 citric acid cycle turns \u2022 Input for each turn: 1 Acetyl CoA \u2022 Output for each turn: 3 NADH + 2 CO2 + 1 ATP + 1 FADH2 \u2022 NADH &amp; FADH2: electron transfer molecules for oxidative phosphorylation \u2022 Occurs in mitochondrial matrixSubstrate level phosphorylation \u2022 ATP generated from substrates in glycolysis and citric acid cycle \u2022 NOT from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GLUCOSE OXIDATION EQUATION Glucose + 6 O2 \u2014 6 CO2 + 6 H2O + Energy (ATP + heat) \u2022 Most energy is generated in mitochondrial matrixCommon Abbreviations: \u2022 ATP: adenosine triphosphate \u2022 NADH: nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide \u2022 FADH2: flavin adenine dinucleotide \u2022 CoA: Coenzyme AKEY PROCESSES IN GLUCOSE OXIDATION \u2022 Glycolysis \u2022 Pyruvate decarboxylation \u2022 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-information-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}