The first reaction in the TCA cycle is catalyzed by citrate synthase. It is mediated by acid-base catalysis; abstraction of a proton from the methyl group of acetyl-CoA by an aspartate residue in the active site converts acetyl-CoA to an enol form, which then attacks the carbonyl group of oxaloacetate.
The reaction is assisted by two histidine residues and pulled forward by the subsequent hydrolysis of citryl-CoA. Figure drawn after a scheme given in [ 18 ]. The paragraph numbers below correspond to those of the reactions in the figure. The first reaction in the figure is the second in the cycle overall, which is why it gets the number 2.
The similarity is reflected in a high degree of homology between the subunits of the two enzymes. If you look closely at the PDH mechanism Figure 5. Indeed, the two multienzyme complexes share the very same E 3 protein; only E 1 and E 2 are specific for the respective substrates. The same E 3 subunit occurs yet again in an analogous multienzyme complex that participates in the degradation of the branched chain amino acids slide Acetyl-CoA is not only utilized for complete oxidation but also for the biosynthesis of fatty acids, cholesterol, and ketone bodies.
Therefore, the activity of the citric acid cycle must be balanced with those of the various synthetic pathways. It is noteworthy that the equilibrium of the malate dehydrogenase reaction favors malate.
The concentration of oxaloacetate is thus quite low, and it will be lowered further if NADH accumulates. This limits the rate of the initial reaction of the TCA, that is, the synthesis of citrate, and it also detracts from the free energy of that reaction.
To make citrate synthesis go forward, it is necessary to sacrifice the energy-rich thioester bond in the citryl-CoA intermediate, which in contrast to succinyl-CoA is simply hydrolyzed and not used toward the synthesis of GTP or ATP. How, then, is the NADP-dependent enzyme regulated? This regulation appears to occur in coordination with the flow through the respiratory chain and the proton-motive at the inner mitochondrial membrane. The mechanism is quite fascinating and is discussed at the end of the following chapter.
Several metabolites in the citric acid cycle are also substrates in biosynthetic pathways, for example those for heme or various amino acids, and through these pathways are drained from the cycle.
When this occurs, they will need to be replenished. Similarly, when the workload of a cell and its ATP demand increase, the TCA cycle must then process acetyl-CoA at an accelerated rate, which requires an increase in the pool of TCA cycle intermediates. The first thing to note is that just feeding more acetyl-CoA into the TCA cycle does not address this problem, since acetyl-CoA simply offsets the two CO 2 molecules that are lost in subsequent reactions in the cycle.
Instead, we need a net supply of any of the intermediates with four or more carbon atoms that function catalytically rather than as substrates. One important and abundant source of TCA cycle intermediates is the pyruvate carboxylase reaction, which makes oxaloacetate from pyruvate slide 7.
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So remember that a molecule called Acetyl-CoA is what really enters the citric acid cycle and is oxidized into the carbon dioxide molecules as it kind of goes around in a citric acid cycle. And instead of writing out the entire chemical formula I just want to abbreviate this as a two carbon molecule with the coenzyme A functional group.
Which is actually a thiol group, a sulfur group. So I'll just write, two carbons with a sulfur coenzyme group for short. Now I want to remind you what produces Acetyl-CoA. So remember we have glycolysis and from glycolysis which begins the breakdown of glucose, we produce pyrate.
And so it's the pyrate that travels from the cytosol into the mitochondria that's converted into Acetyl-CoA by a very special enzyme called pyruvate dehydrogenase. And remember dehydrogenase means we're dehydrogenating or oxidizing our molecule. And so if we're oxidizing it shouldn't surprise you then that this enzyme has a co factor indeed. And I want to remind you that pyruvate is a three carbon molecule. So it's losing a carbon molecule. You can see here because Acetyl-CoA is two carbons but pyruvate is three so a carbon must be lost during this reaction.
And indeed, part of the oxidation process releases a carbon dioxide molecule. And finally, I also want to note as well that of course, in order to get this coenzyme A here we need to have that as a substrate as well. Now one important point about this step, this entry point into the citric acid cycle, is that this reaction, in going from pyruvate to Acetyl-CoA, is irreversible.
Which is why I'm kind of bolding this unidirectional arrow here to tell you that while we can take pyruvate into Acetyl-CoA, it's not possible to take Acetyl-CoA and turn it into pyruvate.
And remember, that when we say a reaction is irreversible that's just another way to say that we have a pretty large negative Delta G value.
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