Citric acid cycle

Hungarian biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1937 (1896-1986)

metabolic pathway

catabolic process by which fatty acids are broken down in the cytosol (in prokaryotes)/mitochondria (in eukaryotes) to generate acetyl-CoA (which enters the citric acid cycle) and NADH and FADH₂ (used in the electron transport chain)

complex of multiple copies of three enzymatic components

pathway leading to the fixation of two molecules of CO2 and the production of one molecule of acetyl-CoA; essentially the oxidative TCA cycle running in reverse. Acetyl-CoA is reductively carboxylated to pyruvate, from which all other central metab

class of enzymes

class of enzymes