BIOCHEMISTRY - Textbook - Ostapchenko L. I. - 2012

Chapter 12. CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM

The primary goal of Carbohydrate METABOLISM is to generate ATP, the universal energy currency of living organisms, produce reducing equivalents in the form of NADH and NADPH, and provide low-molecular-weight precursor compounds for The Biosynthesis of Biopolymers such as Proteins, Polysaccharides, Lipids, and Nucleic Acids. Thus, Carbohydrate Metabolism in animals comprises Catabolic pathways in which poly-, oligo-, and Monosaccharides are broken down to release and store energy, yielding low-molecular-weight intermediates and end-products that serve as building blocks for anabolic reactions involved in synthesizing the Organism's own macromolecules and other biologically active compounds.

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