Unit
Notes - 3
6. Contributions of
metabolic pathways:
Embden-Myerhof
pathway:
90% of energy
derived from anaerobic glycolysis
Methemoglobin
Reductase pathway:
Converts iron
from the ferric state (Fe+++) to the ferrous
state (Fe++)
Rapoport-Leubering
pathway:
Production of
2,3 diphosphoglycerate (2,3-DPG)
Hexose
monophosphate shunt:
Aerobic
glycolysis which produces reduced glutathione which prevents denaturation of
hemoglobin by oxidative molecules. The denatured Hb precipitates against cell
wall as Heinz bodies