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how will this inhibition eventually affect the amount of ATP in the cell?

2007-09-27 15:03:28 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics Biology

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When there is plenty of ATP to meet the body's needs, respiration slows down allowing the body to use their organic molecules for other purposes around the body. The control the body uses is regulating the enzymes at critical areas throughout the catabolic pathway. The enzyme phosphofructokinase is one of these critical enzymes. It controls step 3 of glycolysis. Here it allows Fructose-6- phosphate to be changed into Fructose 1,6-bisphosphate. by controlling the rate of this step the cell can speed up or slow down the entire catabolic process.

2007-09-28 11:28:21 · answer #1 · answered by ATP-Man 7 · 0 0

That could lower the amount of ATP in a cell because ....
without glycolysis starting, the rest of cellular respiration can't continue. Cellular respiration is the way cells get their ATP, so keeping this process from beginning will cause less ATP to be built.

2007-09-27 15:06:46 · answer #2 · answered by ecolink 7 · 1 0

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