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Mechling Mechling
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9 years ago
I know that 1 fatty acid produces about 134 ATP's but I'm very confused on the Glycerol
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9 years ago
Fatty acids are rich sources of energy; 44 moles of ATP are generated by the complete oxidation of 1 mole of a six-carbon fatty acid.

Glycerol is phosphorylated and converted to glycero-3-phosphate using 1 ATP in the process. The glycerol-3-phosphate is converted to dihydroxyacetone and enters the glycolytic pathway, producing 2 ATP per dihydroxyactone molecule converted to pyruvate. Therefore the net ATP for glycolysis is 1 ATP.

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8 years ago
this explains it very well. thanks so much! I had the same question!
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