So recall from our previous lesson videos that the whole point of aerobic cellular respiration is to make a lot of ATP or energy for the cell. But really during aerobic cellular respiration, the ATP that is being made can actually be made via 2 different types of phosphorylation. And so here in this video, we're introducing the types of phosphorylation that occurs during aerobic cellular respiration. And those 2 different types of phosphorylation that create ATP during aerobic cellular respiration are number 1, substrate level phosphorylation, and number 2, oxidative phosphorylation. And so in our next lesson video, we'll introduce substrate level phosphorylation, and then later in another video, we'll introduce oxidative phosphorylation. So I'll see you all in our next lesson video where we introduce substrate level phosphorylation.
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Types of Phosphorylation
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Substrate-Level Phosphorylation
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In this video, we're going to introduce substrate level phosphorylation, which is one of the types of phosphorylation used to make ATP during aerobic cellular respiration. Substrate level phosphorylation uses an enzyme and a substrate in order to directly transfer a phosphate group to ADP, creating ATP or energy for the cell. If we take a look at our image over here on the left-hand side, we can get a better idea of substrate level phosphorylation. Substrate level phosphorylation uses an enzyme and a substrate. Notice here we have the enzyme and notice here we have the substrate, and the substrate is phosphorylated; it has a phosphate group on the substrate. The enzyme is going to catalyze the transfer of this phosphate group to ADP, the low energy form, and that's ultimately going to create ATP, the high energy form. This is substrate level phosphorylation, just an enzyme catalyzing the transfer of a phosphate group to ADP creating ATP.
Now substrate level phosphorylation is specifically used to make a very small amount of ATP during glycolysis and the Krebs Cycle. Notice that, over here on the right-hand side, what we're showing you are the 4 stages of aerobic cellular respiration: glycolysis, pyruvate oxidation, the Krebs cycle, and the electron transport chain in chemiosmosis. Notice specifically that substrate level phosphorylation is going to occur during glycolysis and during the Krebs cycle, but it does not occur during pyruvate oxidation or during the electron transport chain. Ultimately, what we can see down below here is that glycolysis and the Krebs cycle are both going to produce a very small amount of ATP via substrate level phosphorylation.
What we'll learn later in our course when we talk more about glycolysis and more about the Krebs cycle is that both glycolysis and the Krebs cycle only create 2 ATP each, and so that is not a lot of ATP in comparison to the next type of phosphorylation that we're going to talk about in our next lesson video. This here concludes our introduction to substrate level phosphorylation and how it only creates a small amount of ATP during glycolysis and the Krebs cycle. In our next lesson video, we'll get to talk about oxidative phosphorylation. So, I'll see you all there.
Oxidative Phosphorylation
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In this video, we're going to introduce oxidative phosphorylation, which is the second type of phosphorylation used to make ATP during aerobic cellular respiration. Now in this video of oxidative phosphorylation, what we're going to learn is that oxidative phosphorylation occurs in a 2-step process. The first step is going to be the electron transport chain or the ETC for short, and the second step is going to be chemiosmosis. Now, in this video we're not going to talk a lot about details of the electron transport chain or chemiosmosis. We're really only going to briefly mention these two. And later in our course, we'll talk a lot more about both the Electron Transport Chain and Chemiosmosis, so keep that in mind.
And in this video, there's only a few takeaways that you should get from this video. And so I'll make sure to make those few takeaways very clear by the end of the video. So oxidative phosphorylation as its name implies with oxidative here, is going to use energy from oxidation-reduction reactions or in short, redox reactions. And these redox reactions are going to take place in the electron transport chain or the ETC, which once again, we'll talk more details about the electron transport chain or the ETC later in our course in a different video. But ultimately, Oxidative Phosphorylation is going to use the energy from redox reactions that take place in the electron transport chain, and it's going to use that energy of the redox reactions to phosphorylate ADP and create a lot of ATP. And so what we'll learn later in our course is that the electron transport chain is going to build a hydrogen ion concentration gradient or an H+ concentration gradient. And the H+ concentration gradient is going to be used to make a large amount of ATP. And really, this is the biggest takeaway of this video, that oxidative phosphorylation is going to make a large amount of ATP and the vast majority of ATP that's associated with aerobic cellular respiration.
Now once again, the electron transport chain is just part of oxidative phosphorylation, because oxidative phosphorylation consists of both the electron transport chain and this other process called chemiosmosis. And again, we're going to talk more about details of the electron transport chain and chemiosmosis later in our course in a different video. For now, here we're just briefly introducing these. And chemiosmosis is defined as the diffusion of ions, more specifically hydrogen ions, across a membrane down their concentration gradient from high to low concentration. And so technically, the electron transport chain and chemiosmosis combined allow for the process of oxidative phosphorylation, and we'll be able to see that in our image.
So we're not going to explain this image here in this video. Again, we'll talk about the electron transport chain and chemiosmosis in more detail in a different video later in our course. For now, here, this is just a foreshadowing image. And together the electron transport chain, which builds a hydrogen ion concentration gradient, and chemiosmosis which utilizes the concentration gradient to phosphorylate ADP and make a lot of ATP. This combination of processes, the ETC and chemiosmosis, allow for oxidative phosphorylation. And so this whole stage that you see here, this whole image that you see here, is going to take place in the last stage of the aerobic cellular respiration.
And so here on the right-hand side, notice that we're showing you the four stages of aerobic cellular respiration. And notice that the first three stages, glycolysis, pyruvate oxidation, and the Krebs Cycle, are not involved directly with oxidative phosphorylation. And so the only stage that's directly involved with oxidative phosphorylation is this fourth and final stage, which actually consists of the electron transport chain and chemiosmosis, two processes that we'll talk about a lot more later in our course.
But one of the biggest takeaways that you should get from this video is that together the electron transport chain and chemiosmosis allow for oxidative phosphorylation. And so ultimately, the electron transport chain and chemiosmosis, or in other words, oxidative phosphorylation, are what produces a large amount of ATP. And once again, this is probably the biggest takeaway of this video, that oxidative phosphorylation is going to generate a large amount of ATP.
And once again, what we have is another image down below to just clarify the idea that oxidative phosphorylation consists of both the electron transport chain or the ETC and chemiosmosis together. And so if you have the electron transport chain and chemiosmosis, then the cell is able to perform oxidative phosphorylation. And once again, we're going to talk a lot more details about the electron transport chain and chemiosmosis later in our course, and we'll talk more details about oxidative phosphorylation later in our course as well. But for now, the biggest takeaway that you should get from this video is that oxidative phosphorylation is going to occur in the fourth and final stage of aerobic cellular respiration, and it's going to create a large amount of ATP, the vast majority of ATP that's associated with aerobic cellular respiration. And really those are the two biggest takeaways of this video.
And so once again, this here concludes our brief introduction to Oxidative Phosphorylation, and we'll talk a lot more about this much later in our course. I'll see you all in our next video.
Substrate-level phosphorylation is utilized to create ATP in which steps of aerobic cellular respiration?
Electron Transport Chain and Chemiosmosis.
Glycolysis and Pyruvate Oxidation.
Pyruvate Oxidation and Krebs cycle.
Glycolysis and Krebs cycle.
Which type of phosphorylation synthesizes ATP using an enzyme that transfers a phosphate group to ADP?
Adaptive Phosphorylation.
Oxidative Phosphorylation.
Substrate-level Phosphorylation.
Product-level Phosphorylation.
The largest amount of ATP made by cellular respiration is created by the process of ______________, in the _____________ steps of aerobic cellular respiration.
Substrate-level phosphorylation; first.
Oxidative phosphorylation; first.
Oxidative phosphorylation; final.
Substrate-level phosphorylation; final.
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