Entner-Doudoroff Pathway - An Overview MCQ - Practice Questions with Answers
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EASYIn the Entner-Doudoroff (ED) pathway. glucose is phosphorylated to glucose -6-phosphate by which of the following enzymes:
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Entner-Doudoroff (ED) pathway
- This pathway occurs in both aerobic and anaerobic conditions.
- It occurs in the cytoplasm of prokaryotes only.
- Certain bacteria such as Pseudomonas saccharophila, P. fluorescens, P. lindeneri and P. aeruginosa lack phosphofructokinase enzyme. They can not degrade glucose by glycolytic process.
- Pyruvate and glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate are produced from glucose by ED pathway,
- This pathway generates 1 ATP, 1 NADH and 1 NADPH from one glucose molecule.
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