Pentose phosphate pathway

Pentose phosphate pathway
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Pentose phosphate pathway
The penthose phosphate pathway (also known as the Hexose Monophosphate Shunt) is a process that serves to generate NADPH and the synthesis of pentose (5-carbon) sugars. There are two distinct phases in the pathway.

Pentose phosphate pathway A metabolic pathway that generates NADPH and five-carbon sugars such as ribose 5-phosphate from glucose 6-phosphate; ...

Warburg-Dickens-Horecker shunt --> pentose phosphate pathway
(Science: biochemistry) A pathway of hexose oxidation in which glucose-6-phosphate undergoes two successive oxidations by nADP, ...

Some bacteria have alternative energy-producing reactions. Two of these are the pentose phosphate pathway and the Entner-Doudoroff pathway.
Formation of Acetyl CoA ...

See also: Enzyme, Glucose, Molecule, Plant, Lysis