ABSTRACT

Pyruvate metabolism The four fates of pyruvate are given by GALA and are shown in the diagram below.

1 How many rings are there in the adenine nucleotide? 2 Which are the pyrimidine nucleotide bases? 3 How many hydrogen bonds are there between guanine and

cytosine? 4 What are the four fates of pyruvate? 5 Can you draw the Lineweaver-Burke plot of competitive

inhibition? 6 How many essential amino acids are there? Can you name

them?