D-Glucose 6 phosphate H20   Pi Glucose 6 phosphatase Direct precursors D-Glucose

Direct products D-Glucose 6 phosphate ATP ADP Hexokinase D-Glucose

D-Glucose

Glucose is a universal source of reduced carbon across the spectrum of life on this planet. Fueling a vast proportion of all the metabolic pathways in all organisms, it is used both as a carbon source for the biosynthesis of the large proportion of other metabolites, or metabolised through glycolysis and the Kreb's cycle. L-glucose is entirely biologically inert, and is not even absorbed by the mammillian gut. Glucose is always converted to the 6-phophate by Hexokinase before further processing.

Accepted name: D-Glucose
Biosynthetic cost: Nil
Biosynthetic materials: Nil
ATP equivalent: 38 ATP
Catabolic products: 2xPyruvate (4xNADH,1xFADH2,1xGTP), 2xATP, 2xNADH