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Insulin favors

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  • Glycolysis
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Glucagon favors

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  • Gluconeogenesis
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Fructose-2,6-bisphosphate

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  • Activates PFK-1

- WORKS AS A KINASE OR PHOSPHATASE

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In the fed state

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  • Insulin/glucagon ration is high

- Use insulin to convert glucose to storage, glycogen

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In the starving state

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  • Insulin/glucagon ratio is low
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Substrate (futile) cycling

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  • Occurs where two opposing enzymes are active at the same time
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Glucokinase

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  • Very specific for glucose but has a high km (not saturated)
  • Not inhibited by G-6-P
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Glucose-6-phsphate and products

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  • Allosterically inhibit hexokinase
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Hexokinase inhibited by

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  • Fructose-6-phosphate

- Overcome by fructose-1-phosphate

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F2,6BP is produced by a bifunctional enzyme

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  • PFK-2

- As a kinase produces F2,6BP (activator of PFK I)

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PFK-1 is a large oligomeric enzyme

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  • Catalyzes the first irreversible reaction that is UNIQUE to the glycolytic pathway
  • The committed step
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ATP in glycolytic pathways

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  • Acts as both a substrate and inhibitor

- Increases the Km of PFK-1 for substrate, inhibiting the enzyme (AMP overcomes inhibition)

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Citrate inhibits

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  • PFK-1
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Fructose-2,6-bisphosphate

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  • Most potent allosteric activator of PFK-1
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Allosteric activators of PFK-1

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  • ADP
  • AMP
  • Fructose-2,6,-bisphosphate
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Allosteric inhibitors of PFK-1

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  • ATP

- Citrate

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Fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase inhibits

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  • PFK-1 activity
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Activation by F-1,6-BP

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  • Feed forward activation

- Second most common enzymopathy in humans (after glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase)

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Alanine production

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  • Produced by proteolysis
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Hepatic pyruvate kinase by protein kinase A

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  • Glucagon stimulated phosphorylation (inactivation)
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Control of pyruvate kinase activity by reversible phosphorylation

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  • Glucagon signals the fasting state
  • Causes phosphorylation
  • Turns off pyruvate kinase (glycolysis will be off)
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Pyruvate kinase is activated by

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  • Fructose-1,6-bisphosphate
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When glucose is in short supply

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  • Glucagon is secreted from the alpha cells of the pancreas
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Low blood sugar levels

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  • Glucagon is secreted

- Receptor mediated activation of protein kinase A inhibits pyruvate kinase

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Glucagon mediated phosphorylation

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  • Inhibits pyruvate kinase
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Pyruvate carboxylase

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  • Helps bypass the pyruvate kinase step in glycolysis
  • Mitochondrial enzyme
  • Allosteric control
  • Requires Acetyl-SCoA
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Fructose-2,6-bisphosphate

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  • Produced by a bifunctional enzyme
  • Not a glycolytic intermediate
  • Most potent activator of glycolysis
  • Inhibits gluconeogenesis
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Fructose-2,6-bisphosphate bifunctional enzymatic activity

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  • Works as a kinase and phosphatase
  • Phosphofructokinase 2
  • Under allosteric and hormonal control
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Allosteric activation of PFK-1 by F-2,6-BP

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  • Increasing affinity for substrate
  • Reducing inhibitory effect of ATP
  • Favors T –> R transition
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Phosphorylation of kinase

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  • Turns it off

- Causes it to work as a phosphatase

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F6P is a substrate for the kinase

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  • Activates glycolysis
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Low blood sugar level favors glucagon

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  • Phosphorylates things
  • Bifuncitonal enzyme
  • Reduces glycolytic flux
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Hormones (endocrine mechanism)

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  • Can effect the amount of enzyme produced

- Induction or repression

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Endocrine mechanisms

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  • Cause covalent modification, thus altering activity
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Secretion of insulin

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  • Positive post prandially (the fed state)
  • Increases all anabolic pathways that decrease blood glucose levels
  • Induces the irreversible enzymes in the glycolytic pathway
  • Represses the enzymes in the gluconeogenic pathway
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Insulin induction

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  • Glucokinase (liver)
  • PFK-1
  • Pyruvate kinase
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Insulin repression

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  • G-6-Pase
  • PEP carboxylase
  • FBPase-1
  • Pyruvate carboxylase
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Induction of gluconeogenic enzymes during periods of starvation

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  • G-6-Pase
  • PEP carboxykinase
  • FBPase-1
  • Pyruvate carboxylase
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Low glucose levels increase gluconeogenesis via

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  • Glucagon-mediated covalent modification
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Glucagon secreted from alpha cells in response to

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  • Low glucose

- Inhibits glycolysis

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Pyruvate kinase A (PrK A) mediated phosphorylation

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  • Favors phosphatase activity of bifunctional enzyme

- Reduces F-2,6-BP levels

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Glucagon generally causes

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  • Phosphorylation
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Insulin generally causes

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  • Dephosphorylation
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With dephosphorylation

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  • Kinase activity of the bifunctional enzyme is favored
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With phosphorylation

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  • Phosphatase activity of bifunctional enzyme is favored
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Glucagon stimulates

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  • Phosphorylation

- Inactivation of the hepatic PFK-2

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Transcription of the gene for PEP carboxykinase

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  • Promoted by glucagon

- Opposed by insulin

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Cortisol

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  • Can induce gluconeogenic enzymes

- Opposes the action of insulin

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Steroid hormones

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  • Interact with nuclear or cytoplasmic receptors
  • Alter enzyme synthesis
  • Promote protein catabolism (increases amino acid availability for gluconeogenesis)
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Fructose-2,6-bisonosphate inhibits

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  • Bisphosphatase activity of gluconeogenesis

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