KROK 1 2008 – Question 72 · KROK (Medicine) · Biological Chemistry
Myocyte cytoplasm contains a big number of dissolved metabolites of glucose oxidation. Name one of them that turns directly into a lactate:
- A. Pyruvate
- B. Oxaloacetate
- C. Fructose 6-phosphate
- D. Glycerophosphate
- E. Glucose 6-phosphate
Hint
Place the listed metabolites on the map of glycolysis and the Krebs cycle, and ask which one is only a single reaction away from lactate.
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