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Many molecules play multiple regulatory roles in cellular processes. Give an example of a molecule that plays more than one role in regulating the reactions we've learned about this week, and explain why it acts in the same OR a different manner in each instance.
The molecule I am choosing is pyruvate but what other reactions does pyruvate regulate besides glycolysis and how? please help, I am very confused.
Pyruvate is a key regulatory molecule involved in multiple metabolic processes.
It is generated as the end-product of glycolysis, from where it regulates different interconnected metabolic pathways:
It forms Phospho-enol phosphate (PEP), by coverting into oxaloacetate and hence, the whole process of reverse glycolysis.
Thus in all, Pyruvate regulates variety of metabolic reactions:
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