Category
page 1Citric acid cycle
Albert Szent-Györgyi
Hungarian biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1937 (1896-1986)
tricarboxylic acid cycle
metabolic pathway
beta oxidation
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)
oxoglutarate dehydrogenase complex
complex of multiple copies of three enzymatic components
reductive tricarboxylic acid cycle
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
ATP citrate synthase
class of enzymes
pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase
class of enzymes