Gluconeogenesis is often thought of as simply the reverse of glycolysis, and this is mostly true. As you probably realize, many of the reactions are readily reversible. So, many of the same enzymes used in glycolysis are actually used in gluconeogenesis. They're simply doing the reverse reaction that they do in glycolysis, meaning that again, they're readily reversible. However, remember, there are those three reactions favorable. They have negative ΔG. And so, new enzymes are going to be required to undo the actions of those particular reactions. And we'll get to that on the next page. For now, let's take more of a top-down look at gluconeogenesis. Just like glycolysis, it has many different molecules that can enter the pathway at different points. Gluconeogenesis has a variety of feeder molecules that it can use to make glucose. In terms of fats, only glycerol can enter gluconeogenesis. For amino acids, only lysine and leucine are unable to be used for gluconeogenesis. However, all of the other amino acids are able to be used for gluconeogenesis. It's worth noting though that some of these are only able to contribute specific carbons. For example, the ketogenic amino acids are only able to contribute certain carbons to gluconeogenesis, and others are going to wind up as ketone bodies. Lastly, lactate, the molecule we were just talking about in the context of fermentation, can be converted back into pyruvate and used again as starting material for gluconeogenesis. And here you sort of have the overview of gluconeogenesis, and you can see that many of the same enzymes are being used. However, there are a few, four to be exact, new enzymes that we're going to talk about on the next page. But for now, let's just talk about the overview of what is required for gluconeogenesis. It's very similar to glycolysis but opposite, of course. For glycolysis, you start off with one glucose molecule and two ATP, right? You need to burn two ATP in the preparatory or energy investment phase. And then from that, you yield four ATP. So, that's going to be a net of two molecules each of ATP, NADH, and pyruvate. And I should, for completion's sake, say that you need two NAD+ to carry out glycolysis because, as we saw, NAD+ is a very important ingredient to glycolysis, as there's this whole fermentation process solely dedicated to regenerating NAD+ from NADH. So, this is glycolysis right here, and you can see that gluconeogenesis is almost the opposite, right? To make one molecule of glucose, we need to take two pyruvate, four ATP, two GTP, and two NADH. So, you can see here that actually, we're using more energy to build the glucose than we get from actually catabolizing a glucose. Gluconeogenesis is more energy-intensive than glycolysis, which provides energy. But this is okay. And, you know, for one thing, when we get to cellular respiration, you'll see that even though you might not be yielding all your ATP back from the glycolytic part, once you get over to oxidative phosphorylation, your ATP yield is just incredible. So, this slightly extra amount of energy that our cells need to use to generate gluconeogenesis, they'll get a return on that investment from cellular respiration. However, gluconeogenesis is also sometimes used just to provide glucose for cells to continue glycolysis in periods of intense energy demand. Glycolysis and gluconeogenesis also both occur in the cytosol, which should make sense. That's where all the enzymes for glycolysis are. So, of course, gluconeogenesis is also going to occur there. And a really important part to think about is that the two pathways are very tightly regulated. And this is because we don't want a futile cycle. So, let's think about this for a second. If we have glycolysis and gluconeogenesis running simultaneously, what's happening? Are we really generating anything? Every action taken by the glycolytic enzymes will be undone by the gluconeogenic enzymes. So, it's almost like we're spinning our wheels, right? We're running in place. We're expending energy but we're not really getting anywhere for that. That's what we call a futile cycle, and our cells just can't afford to waste energy like that. So, these two processes are regulated, they're very tightly regulated and they're regulated in such a way that when one pathway is running, the other is shut off. And this is also important from an enzymatic standpoint. If you think about the fact that many of these enzymes are being shared, well, these enzymes, it's very easy for them to reverse their reactions. So, they need some sort of oversight telling them which way they should be pushing those reactions. And again, for glycolysis, we have those three particular reactions that drive the whole pathway. So, the regulation of those particular enzymes is going to play a big role in actually controlling glycolysis and gluconeogenesis. You'll see that when those glycolytic, those specifically glycolytic enzymes are active, the specifically gluconeogenic enzymes will be inactive, and vice versa when the specifically gluconeogenic enzymes are active, those enzymes specific to glycolysis will become inactivated. And of course, again, those are the enzymes from reactions 1, 3, and 10. Alright, let's flip the page and actually talk about those reactions specific to gluconeogenesis.
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