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First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 (2022) | Medicine (MD/DO) School Study Aid
Enzyme Types
- Characteristics
- Lyases
- Hydrolases
- Transferases
- Isomerases
- Oxidoreductases
- Ligases
1 min
Glycolysis
- Characteristics
- Glucose
- Hexokinase or Glucokinase
- Glucose-6-phosphate
- Fructose-6-phosphate
- Phosphofructokinase-1 (PFK-1)
- Fructose-1,6-bisphosphate
- Aldolase
- Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate
- 1,3-bisphosphoglycerate
- 3-phosphoglycerate
- 2-phosphoglycerate
- Phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP)
- Pyruvate Kinase
- Pyruvate
- Pyruvate Dehydrogenase
- Acetyl-CoA
4 mins
Gluconeogenesis
- OVERVIEW
- Produces Glucose from Non-Carbohydrate Substrates
- Upregulated by Glucagon and Cortisol
- PATHWAY
- Pyruvate
- Pyruvate Carboxylase
- Oxaloacetate
- Phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP) Carboxykinase
- Phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP)
- Fructose-1,6-bisphosphate
- Fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase
- Fructose-6-phosphate
- Glucose-6-phosphate
- Glucose 6-phosphatase
- Glucose
- Clinical Relevance
- Von Gierke Disease
4 mins
Urea Cycle
- Mitochondria
- N-Acetylglutamate
- Carbamoyl Phosphate Synthetase I
- NH3 + CO2
- Carbamoyl Phosphate
- Ornithine Transcarbamylase
- Citrulline
- Cytosol
- Aspartate
- Argininosuccinate
- Fumarate
- Arginine
- H2O to Urea
- Ornithine
3 mins
Ketogenesis and Ketogenolysis
- Ketogenesis
- 2 Acetyl-CoA
- Thiolase
- Acetoacetyl-CoA
- Mitochondrial HMG-CoA Synthase
- HMG-CoA
- HMG-CoA Lyase
- Ketone Bodies
- Acetoacetate
- Beta Hydroxybutyrate
- Acetone
- Ketogenolysis
- Succinyl-CoA and Acetoacetate
- Acetoacetyl-CoA
- Thiolase
- 2 Acetyl-CoA
4 mins
Cholesterol Synthesis
- Pathway
- Acetyl-CoA
- Acetoacetyl-CoA
- Cytosolic HMG-CoA Synthase
- HMG-CoA
- HMG-CoA Reductase
- Mevalonate
- Cholesterol
2 mins
