The Pentose Phosphate Pathway

Vincent: I want to show the pentose phosphate pathway here because I actually talk about this in some of my lectures. So when you take glucose and you metabolize it to pyruvate and acetyl CoA, you know, you can generate some energy in that process. But the, some of these compounds are shunted off which is what we're talking about here. And so if you mess around with its activity, then the amounts of acetate relative to this upstream metabolite, Xylose 5P, right? Vincent: You could imagine that you have different amounts of that that then these are the fatty acids that are contributing or sort of in the mix when it