metabolic pathway
series of chemical reactions occurring within a cell
nucleotide salvage
Any process which produces a nucleotide, a compound consisting of a nucleoside that is esterified with (ortho)phosphate or an oligophosphate at any hydroxyl group on the glycose moiety, from derivatives of it without de novo synthesis.
Cori cycle
the metabolic pathway where lactic acid produced in the muscles is converted into glucose in the liver
Mitochondrial shuttle
biochemical system that transports reducing agents across mitochondrial membranes
lipolysis
metabolic process of breaking down lipid to release free fatty acids
metabolic network
Set of biological pathways
alanine cycle
series of reactions in which amino groups and carbons from muscle are transported to the liver
C4 carbon fixation
photosynthetic process used by some plants
C3 carbon fixation
metabolic pathway for carbon fixation in photosynthesis
glycogen catabolic process
The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the breakdown of glycogen, a polydisperse, highly branched glucan composed of chains of D-glucose residues
pentose-phosphate shunt
The glucose-6-phosphate catabolic process in which, coupled to NADPH synthesis, glucose-6-P is oxidized with the formation of carbon dioxide (CO2) and ribulose 5-phosphate; ribulose 5-P then enters a series of reactions interconverting sugar phosphat
glycogenesis
Synthesis of glycogen
Androgen backdoor pathway
series of interconnected biochemical reactions