THE key carbohydrate intermediate, glucose 6-phosphate, which may follow several alternative metabolic pathways including the 6-phosphogluconate oxidative cycle and the glycolytic sequence ...
Enzymes control metabolic pathways. The enzymes change the substrate at each step in the metabolic pathway in order to get the final product at the end. There are different types of metabolic ...
anabolic – this type of pathway requires energy and is used to build up large molecules from smaller ones (biosynthesis). catabolic – this type of pathway releases energy and is used to break ...
And yet, Met12 lacks the genes needed to make methane. Instead, the microbe relies on an alternative metabolic pathway in which carbon dioxide is converted to an organic molecule called acetate ...