DIY Glycolysis

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Step Three - Dehydration of Fructose 6-phosphate

Possible but not desirable.

The first stage of glycolysis involves splitting your hexose into two equal halves. If you dehydrate you will remove a hydroxyl group. With five oxygen atoms left how can you split into two equal sized halves?

Author: Jon Maber

j.r.maber@leeds.ac.uk

Dept Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, The University of Leeds, U.K.

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, The University of Leeds, U.K.