The Tricarboxylic Acid Cycle Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• krebs cycle: also known as tca or citric acid cycle
• oxaloacetate: used and regenerated during the tca cycle
• aerobic: under these conditions, pyruvate is oxidized in the presence of coenzyme a to form acetyl coa
• citrate synthase: reaction that initiates the tca cycle
• isocitrate: dehydrogenase enzyme used in the third reaction of tca cycle
• succinate: dehydrogenase used in oxidation of c-c single bond to double bound
• fumarase: hydration across double bond
• malate: dehydrogenase used in oxidation of the resulting alcohol to a ketone
• nadh: the overall citric acid cycle yields three of these molecules
• thirty-two: total atp yield from glucose
• acetyl coa: is the substrate for acetylation of 3600 lysine residues on 1750 proteins in human cells
• pyruvate: product from glycolysis that is oxidatively decarboxylated to acetate