ATP Yield

[kryptonxenon]

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Yeast are single-celled eukaryotes. So their ATP yield should be 36 per glucose, right? Question 28 of B/B on the sample test says it is 38 ATP.

 

[theonlytycrane]

It depends on shuttling electrons from cytosolic NADH into the ETC, and if cytosolic NADH gives 2.5 or 1.5 ATP. We wouldn't have to know specific numbers (3x) to answer a question, though.

One tissue might use the malate / aspartate shuttle while another may use the glycerol-3-phosphate shuttle to bring the cytosolic electrons to the ETC.

 

[kryptonxenon]

Gotcha, thank you!