What would happen to cellular glucose-6-phosphate if the pentose phosphate pathway is inhibited?

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In the ansence of pentose phoshpate pathway glucose 6- phosphate undergo glycolysis to produce energy. In glycolysis the glucose 6- phosphate will converted into fructose 6- phosphate in the presence of enzyme phosphoglucomutase. Then by the presence of enzyme phosphofructokinase, by using one molecule of ATP the fructose 6-phosphate is converted into fructose 1,6- bisphosphate. Fructose 1,6- bisphosphate is split into dihydroxyacetone phosphate (DHAP) and glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate (GAP) by the presense of the enzyme aldose.The DHAP and GAP are isomers. The enzyme triose-phosphate isomerase rapidly converts DHAP into GAP. Then the DHAP molecules are converted into 1,3-bisphosphoglycerate in the presence of glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase. In the next step phosphoglycerokinase converts 1,3-bisphosphoglycerate into 3-phosphoglycerate. In this step one ATP molecule is formed. Then phosphoglycerate mutase relocates phosphate group from third carbon to second carbon to yield 2-phosphoglycerate. The enzyme enolase removes a molecule of water from 2-phosphoglycerate to form phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP). In the last step phosphpopenol pyruvate is converted into pyruvate in the presence of pyruvate kinase. This step also yield one molecule of ATP.

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