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Title: How many ATP are produced in Glycerol + 3 fatty acids? Explain too! Post by: Mechling on Apr 14, 2015 I know that 1 fatty acid produces about 134 ATP's but I'm very confused on the Glycerol
Title: Re: How many ATP are produced in Glycerol + 3 fatty acids? Explain too! Post by: psyche360 on Apr 15, 2015 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. The process is best described in the attachment. Title: Re: How many ATP are produced in Glycerol + 3 fatty acids? Explain too! Post by: luvnstuff on Apr 26, 2015 this explains it very well. thanks so much! I had the same question!
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