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    Entner-Doudoroff Pathway - An Overview MCQ - Practice Questions with Answers

    Updated on Sep 18, 2023 18:34 AM

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    In 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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