glykolysissä
Glycolysis, also known as the Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas pathway, is a fundamental metabolic process that occurs in the cytoplasm of nearly all living organisms. It is the initial stage of cellular respiration, where glucose, a six-carbon sugar, is broken down into two molecules of pyruvate, a three-carbon compound. This breakdown releases a small amount of energy in the form of ATP and also produces NADH, an electron carrier that will be used in later stages of cellular respiration to generate more ATP.
The glycolytic pathway consists of ten enzymatic reactions. The process can be divided into two main phases.
Glycolysis can occur in the presence or absence of oxygen. When oxygen is present, the pyruvate produced