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Glycosome - Phillip Day

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Glycosome 

 

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Glycosomes are made up of proteins and glycogen. Glycosomes are specialized peroxisomes that contain many enzymes in pathways of either peroxide metabolism, Embden-Meyerhof segment of glycolysis, lipid synthesis and fatty acid B-oxidation. Glycosome are found within cytoplasm but is seperate and surrounded by the membrane. 

 

Glycosomes contain all the enzymes necessary for glycolysis, fixation of CO2 and glycerol metabolism through their intracellular organelles and membrane-bound microbody. Glycosomes also contain enzymes that are assiciated with purine savage, ether-lipidbiosynthesis and pyrimidine synthesis. Glycosome is the host of the main glycolytic enzymes in the pathway  and uses this pathway to breakdown fatty acids to use for energy and carbon for for glycolysis.

 

Glycosomes are round to oval shape and vary sizes by cell. Tubular inclusions is another structure in the human platelets that resemble gycosomes. 

 

References:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/glycosome

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4356261/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16092531

 

 

 

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