cell Biology Question

[herkulease]

For biology people.

Memory refresher I specially looking at the TCA Cycle for recent people or Kreb Cycle for the older ones.

Acteyl CoA can be formed from pyruvate from glycolysis or from fatty acids.

Heres's my series of question.

how many NADH if any is formed from 1 fatty acid molecule converting to acetyl coA.

I believe there would be atleast 1 as C-C bond would be broken.

once converted to acetyl coA would the cycle produce any anything different

 

[pclstyle]

bump 'cause i'm curious ( and because i've forgotten from HS biology) but i don't want to look it up myself 🙂

 

[Babbles]

Originally posted by: herkulease
For biology people.

Memory refresher I specially looking at the TCA Cycle for recent people or Kreb Cycle for the older ones.

Acteyl CoA can be formed from pyruvate from glycolysis or from fatty acids.

Heres's my series of question.

how many NADH if any is formed from 1 fatty acid molecule converting to acetyl coA.

I believe there would be atleast 1 as C-C bond would be broken.

once converted to acetyl coA would the cycle produce any anything different

Had to break open my college biology 101 textbook, I don't remember most of this crap.

Anyhow looks like 3 NADH are formed and one pair of Carbon-carbon bonds are broken from the begining of the cycle. However I think many C-C bonds are borken as CO2 and NADH are released from the cycle. Also I think Acetyl CoA forms oxaloacetate which starts the cycle again.