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jianne
jianne
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What is the Entner-Doudoroff pathway?

 

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Posted by jianne on Tuesday March 10, 2009 at 2:17 AM and tagged with biochemistry, catabolism, michael doudoroff, nathan entner, pyruvates, science.

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  1. drgingerbear Teacher
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    The Entner-Doudoroff pathway was discovered by Nathan Entner and Michael Doudoroff. This pathway describes an alternate series of reactions that catabolize glucose to a pyruvate and a glyceraldehyde-3 phosphate using enzymes that are different than the enzymes used on glycolysis or the pentose phosphate pathway. The interesting feature of this pathway is the cleavage of 6-phosphogluconate to yield pyruvateand glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate.

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    Posted by drgingerbear on Thursday March 12, 2009 at 11:55 AM