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REVIEW
of
CARBOHYDRATES
CARBOHYDRATES
Hydrates of carbon [Cn(H2O)m]
Polyhydroxyaldehyde or polyhydroxyketone, or
substance that gives these compounds on hydrolysis
Fructose (levulose)
Mannose
Targets lysosomal enzymes to their destinations
Directs certain proteins from Golgi body to lysosomes
Disaccharides
Sucrose (table sugar, cane sugar,
saccharose)
glucose & fructose linked αβ1-2
Lactose (milk sugar) glu & gal linked β 1-4
Maltose (malt sugar) 2 glucose linked
α 1-4
Trehalose (mycose) 2 glucose linked
α 1-1
Gentiobiose (amygdalose) 2 glucose
linked β 1-6
Cellobiose 2 glucose linked β 1-4
CLASSES OF CARBOHYDRATES
Number of C
Triose, tetroses, pentose, hexose, heptulose
Number of saccharide units
Monosaccharides, disaccharides, oligosaccharides (2 to 10
units), polysaccharides
Position of carbonyl (C=O) group
Aldose if terminally located
Ketose if centrally located
Reducing property
Reducing sugars (all monosaccharides)
Nonreducing sugars (sucrose)
STRUCTURAL PROJECTIONS OF
MONOSACCHARIDES
FISCHER by Emil Fischer
(Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1902)
D (R or +) or L (S or -)
HAWORTH by Walter Haworth
(Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1937)
H OH- C
H – C – OH
H C OH
C=O Enediol O O-
R HO H OH- R
C
C
Aldose Oxidizing
H C OH
C agent R
R OH
Aldonate
ABO ANTIGENS
N-acetyl- D-galactose N-acetyl-
TYPE A
D-galactosamine D-glucosamine
Fucose
D-galactose N-acetyl-
TYPE O
D-glucosamine
Fucose
POLYSACCHARIDES
STARCH
Storage carbohydrate in plants
HEPARIN
Heterogeneous mixture of variably sulfonated chains
Stored in mast cells of the liver, lungs and the gut
Naturally-occurring anticoagulant by acting as
antithrombin III and antithromboplastin
Composed of two disaccharide repeating units A & B;
A is L-iduronic acid-2-sulfate linked to 2-deoxy-2-sulfamido-D-
galactose-6-sulfate
B is D-glucuronic acid beta-linked to 2-deoxy-2-sulfamido-D-glucose-
6-sulfate
HEPARAN SULFATE
CHONDROITIN SULFATE
Most abundant in mammalian tissues
Found in skeletal and soft connective tissues
Composed of repeating units of N-acetyl galactosamine sulfate linked
beta1-4 to glucuronic acid
KERATAN SULFATE
DERMATAN SULFATE
Found in skin, blood vessels, heart valves, tendons, aorta, spleen
and brain
The disaccharide repeating units are L-iduronic acid and N-
acetylgalactosamine-4-sulfate with small amounts of D-glucuronic acid
GLYCOLYSIS
The specific pathway by which the body
gets energy from monosaccharides
First stage is ACTIVATION
At the expense of 2ATPs glucose is
phosphorylated
Step #1
formation of glucose-6-phosphate
Step # 2
isomerization to fructose-6-phosphate
Step # 3
Second phosphate group is attached to yield fructose-
1,6-bisphosphate
Step # 4
Fructose-1,6-bisphosphate is broken down into two C3
fragments
glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate (G-3-P) and
Step # 9
Removal of the remaining phosphate to yield
ATP and pyruvate
Step # 10
Reductive decarboxylation of pyruvate to
produce ethanol and CO2
REACTIONS OF GLYCOLYSIS
STEP REACTION ENZYME REACTION ΔG in
TYPE kJ/mol
Acetyl CoA
Oxaloacetate Citrate
Malate
Isocitrate
Fumarate
Other
amino
Α-Ketoglutarate acids &
Succinate purines
Porphyrins, Glutamate
heme, Succinyl
chlorophyll CoA
NOTES TO REMEMBER
The unusual thing about the structure of N-
acetylmuramic acid compared to other
carbohydrates is the presence of a lactic acid
side chain.