Metabolism: Glycolysis, Krebs Cycle, Electron Transport Chain

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🗓️ 31 October 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Sam Smith covers the intricacies of metabolism, focusing on glycolysis, the Krebs cycle, and the electron transport chain.

First, the podcast explores the process of glycolysis, breaking down the key enzymes, intermediates, and regulation points. Next is the citric acid cycle, examining its regulation, energy production, and the roles of specific enzymes and intermediates. Lastly, we look at the electron transport chain and discuss how electrons are transferred through the five complexes, creating a proton gradient that drives ATP synthase to produce ATP.

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(00:00) Intro

(03:15) Ten steps of glycolysis: Intermediate names and enzymes

(08:01) Simplified glycolysis process: Breaking down key steps

(12:30) Glycolysis regulation: Allosteric regulation of enzymes

(21:13) Mnemonics for Krebs cycle intermediates

(25:52) Regulation of the Krebs cycle: ATP, calcium, and more

(30:26) Electron transport chain: Overview and key steps

(34:35) ATP synthase

(33:00) Reduction potentials in the electron transport chain

(37:31) Synopsis of metabolism

(40:34) MCAT Advice of the Day

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0:00.0	Welcome to MCAT Basics, your ultimate guide to the essential topics you need to master for the MCAT,
0:08.0	brought to you by the physicians at Med School Coach.
0:11.0	Every week, Sam Smith breaks down high-yield MCAT topics, ensuring you're primed for success on test day.
0:17.0	Join Sam as we explore the most crucial subjects outlined by the AAMC, pulled from official practice materials and third-party resources.
0:25.0	Get ready to elevate your MCAT game with topics tailored to maximize your score potential.
0:30.3	Hello, I'm Sam Smith.
0:32.8	This podcast covers topics within metabolism.
0:36.8	It's geared towards reviewing the three most important metabolic processes, which are glycolysis, the Krebs cycle, and the electron transport chain.
0:46.6	And I'm going to cover these three processes in detail, and then I'm going to go into kind of my philosophy on how I memorize the
0:54.7	structures and the names within each of these processes and kind of some of the stuff you need
0:58.9	to memorize I'll go over and it's interesting for me to see that a lot of the study materials
1:05.0	I went through specifically the Kaplan books really didn't put much emphasis on this material
1:10.5	but then it kept showing up on a lot of the practice
1:13.4	test I was taking the official practice practice test I was taking and the question packs and stuff and so for me I think it was a pretty important topic and this definitely did come up quite a bit so you'll see this kind of material on one out of the four MCAT sections,
1:30.0	and that is the biological and biochemical foundations of living systems. Enjoy. Hope it helps.
1:42.3	I just want to start by saying that this subject material is very dense.
1:47.5	You might have to listen to this a few times, you know, let it soak in, think about it,
1:51.5	pause it, rewind it, whatever you need to do.
1:54.8	Just know that it's important.
1:56.4	You're going to come across a lot of enzyme names, intermediate names, products, reactive names, stuff like
2:04.6	that. There's more memorization than it is conceptual. So yeah, just let the stuff sink in. Make
2:11.4	sure you know it. All right. So I'm going to start this lecture on metabolism with the definition
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