CARBOHYDRATE DIGESTION & METABOLISM

Definition• Metabolism (from Greek: μεταβολή "metabolē",

"change" or Greek: μεταβολισμός metabolismos, "outthrow") is the set of chemical reactions that happen in the cells of living organisms to sustain life.

• These processes allow organisms to grow and reproduce, maintain their structures, and respond to their environments. Metabolism is usually divided into two categories.

• Catabolism breaks down organic matter, for example to harvest energy in cellular respiration.

• Anabolism uses energy to construct components of cells such as proteins and nucleic acids.

Chemical Reaction• The chemical reactions of metabolism are organized into

metabolic pathways, in which one chemical is transformed through a series of steps into another chemical, by a sequence of enzymes.

• Enzymes are crucial to metabolism because they allow organisms to drive desirable reactions that require energy and will not occur by themselves, by coupling them to spontaneous reactions that release energy.

• As enzymes act as catalysts they allow these reactions to proceed quickly and efficiently.

• Enzymes also allow the regulation of metabolic pathways in response to changes in the cell's environment or signals from other cells.

Selective reaction

• The metabolism of an organism determines which substances it will find nutritious and which it will find poisonous.

• For example, some prokaryotes use hydrogen sulfide as a nutrient, yet this gas is poisonous to animals.

• The speed of metabolism, the metabolic rate, influences how much food an organism will require, and also affects how it is able to obtain that food.

CARBOHYDRATE DIGESTION

• AMYLUM digestion by amylase enzyme

Disaccharides digestion

► Glucose is the most important carbohydrate► Glucose is the major metabolic fuel of

mammals, except ruminants ► Monosaccharide from diet : - Glucose - Fructose - Galactose► Fructose and Galactose glucose at the

liver

Galactose Metabolism

Fructose Metabolism

Blood glucose carbohydrate metabolism exist are :

1. Glycolisis 2. Glycogenesis 3. HMP Shunt 4. Oxidation of Pyruvate 5. Kreb’s Cycle 6. Change to lipids Fasting blood glucose carbohydrate

metabolism : 1. Glycogenolisis 2. Gluconeogenesis

GLYCOLISIS

Glycolisis oxidation of glucose energy It can function either aerobically or anaerobically

pyruvate lactate Occurs in the cytosol of all cell AEROBICALLY GLYCOLYSIS : Pyruvate Mitochondria oxidized to

Asetil CoA Kreb’s Cycle CO2 + H2O + ATP

Glycolisis

Most of the reaction of glycolysis are reversible, except of three reaction :

1. Glucose Glucose-6-phosphate, catalyzed by Hexokinase / Glucokinase

Hexokinase : - Inhibited allosterically by its product

glucose-6-p - Has a high affinity for its substrate glucose - available at all cell, except liver and islet cell

Glucokinase : - available at liver and islet cell - in the liver to remove glucose from the

blood after meal 2. Fructose-6-P Fructose-1,6-biP - catalyzed by Phosphofructokinase enzyme - Irreversible - Rate limiting enzyme in glycolysis 3. Phosphoenolpyruvate Enol Pyruvate - Catalyzed by Pyruvate kinase enzyme Oxidation of 1 mol glucose 8 mol ATP and 2

mol Pyruvate

ANAEROBICALLY GLYCOLYSIS : - The reoxidation of NADH through the

respiratory chain to oxygen is prevented - Pyruvate is reduced by the NADH to lactate, by

Lactate dehidrogenase enzyme Lactate dehydrogenase Pyruvate + NADH + H+ Lactate + NAD+

- Oxidation 1 mol glucose via anaerobically glycolysis 2 mol ATP

ANAEROBICALLY GLYCOLYSIS : Respiratory chain is absence

Reoxidation of NADH NAD+ via Respiratory chain is inhibited

Reoxidation of NADH via lactate formation allows glycolysis to proceed in the absence of oxygen by regenerating sufficient NAD+

GLYCOLYSIS IN ERYTHROCYTE• Erythrocyte lack mitochondria

respiratory chain and Kreb’s cycle are absence

• Always terminates in lactate• In mammals the reaction catalyzed by

phosphoglycerate kinase may be bypassed by a process that catalyzed Biphosphoglycerate muta-

se• Its does serve to provide 2,3-

biphosphoglycerate bind to hemoglobin decreasing its

affinity for oxygen oxygen readily available to tissues

GLYCOLYSIS IN ERYTHROCYTE

OXIDATION OF PYRUVATE• Occur in mitochondria• Oxidation of 1 mol Pyruvate 1 mol

Asetyl-CoA + 3 mol ATP• CH3COCOOH + HSCoA + NAD+ CH3CO-SCoA +

NADH (Pyruvate) (Asetyl-CoA)• Catalyzed by Pyruvate dehydrogenase

enzyme• This enzyme need CoA as coenzyme• In Thiamin deficiency, oxydation of

pyruvate is impaired lactic and pyruvic acid

OXIDATION OF PYRUVATE

GLYCOGENESIS• Synthesis of Glycogen from glucose• Occurs mainly in muscle and liver cell• The reaction :• Glucose Glucose-6-P Hexokinase / Glucokinase• Glucose-6-P Glucose-1-P Phosphoglucomutase• Glucose-1-P + UTP UDPG +

Pyrophosphate UDPG Pyrophosphorylase

GLYCOGENESIS

• Glycogen synthase catalyzes the formation of α-1,4-glucosidic linkage in glycogen

• Branching enzyme catalyzes the formation of α-1,6-glucosidic linkage in glycogen

• Finally the branches grow by further additions of 1 → 4-gucosyl units and further branching (like tree!)

SYNTHESIS OF GLYCOGEN

SYNTHESIS OF GLYCOGEN

GLYCOGENESIS AND GLYCOGENOLYSIS PATHWAY

Glycogenesis Glycogenolysis

GLYCOGENOLYSIS

• The breakdown of glycogen• Glycogen phosphorilase catalyzes

cleavage of the 1→4 linkages of glycogen to yield glucose-1-phosphate

• α(1→4)→α(1→4) glucan transferase transfer a trisaccharides unit from one branch to the other

• Debranching enzyme hydrolysis of the 1→6 linkages

• The combined action of these enzyme leads to the complete breakdown of glycogen.

GLYCOGENOLYSIS Phosphoglucomutase• Glucose-1-P Glucose-6-P Glucose-6-phosphatase• Glucose-6-P Glucose• Glucose-6-phosphatase enzyme a

spesific enzyme in liver and kidney, but not in muscle

• Glycogenolysis in liver yielding glucose export to blood to increase the blood glu-

cose concentration• In muscle glucose-6-P glycolysis

GLUCONEOGENESIS

Pathways that responsible for converting noncarbohydrate precursors to glucose or glycogen

In mammals occurs in liver and kidney Major substrate : 1. Lactic acid from muscle,

erythrocyte 2. Glycerol from TG hydrolysis 3.Glucogenic amino acid 4. Propionic acid in ruminant

Gluconeogenesis meets the needs of the body for glucose when carbohydrate is not available from the diet or from glycogenolysis

A supply of glucose is necessary especially for nervous system and erythrocytes.

The enzymes : 1. Pyruvate carboxylase 2. Phosphoenolpyruvate karboxikinase 3. Fructose 1,6-biphosphatase 4. Glucose-6-phosphatase

GLUCONEOGENESIS

GLUCONEOGENESIS FROM AMINO ACID

GLUCONEOGENESIS FROM PROPIONIC ACID

CORY CYCLE

HMP SHUNT/HEXOSE MONO PHOSPHATE SHUNT = PENTOSE PHOSPHATE PATHWAY

• An alternative route for the metabolism of glucose

• It does not generate ATP but has two major function :

1. The formation of NADPH synthesis of fatty acid and steroids

2. The synthesis of ribose nucleotide and nucleic acid formation

HMP SHUNT

• Active in : liver, adipose tissue, adrenal cortex, thyroid, erythrocytes, testis and lactating mammary gland

• Its activity is low in muscle• In erythrocytes : • HMP Shunt provides NADPH for the reduction of

oxidized glutathione by glutathione reductase reduced glutathi-

one removes H2O2 glutathione peroxidase

HMP SHUNT

Glutathione reductase• G-S-S-G 2-G-SH(oxidized glutathione) (reduced glutathione) Glutathione peroxidase• 2-G-SH + H2O2 G-S-S-G + 2H2O• This reaction is important accumulation of H2O2

may decrease the life span of the erythrocyte damage to the membrane cell hemolysis

HMP SHUNT

BLOOD GLUCOSE

• Blood glucose is derived from the : 1. Diet the digestible dietary carbohy- drate yield glucose blood 2. Gluconeogenesis 3. Glycogenolysis in liver• Insulin play a central role in regulating blood glucose

blood glucose• Glucagon blood glucose• Growth hormone inhibit insulin activity• Epinefrine stress blood glucose