Bio Q CO2 in cellular respiration

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How many C02 are produced per cycle?

I think Ferallis notes has it wrong. According to wiki, it is 2CO2 per krebs cycle, not counting the one from pyruvate to Acetyl CoA.
 
every single carbon that goes into the cycle leaves as a CO2, if you fully oxidize 1 mol of glucose, you just created 6 mols of CO2.

my biochem prof always used to say "producing energy is just cleaving off the electrons, then what are you left with? - carbon skeletons"

as far as I know the PDC causes you to loose 1 CO2 per g3p that passes through, then your last 2 co2's are lost in the first two reduction steps of nadh, times that by the 2g3p's you got from 2 glucose and thats 6CO2s. If you're thinking of the electron transport chain as another source of CO2-- it isn't, that produces water when the electrons you cleaved finally combine with oxygen

edit: you might be confused with the overall turning of the cycle, some people think of the cycle as 1 turn per/1 glucose or 1 turn per/1 g3p, basically there isn't really a straight answer for this because the cycle is always in motion and the carbons that are lost as co2 aren't even the ones that entered in in the previous step
 
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I think you are confusing glycolysis with decarboxylation. There is no loss of CO2 in glycolysis. Decarboxylation (loss of CO2) happens in mitochondrial matrix (pyruvate -->acetylCoA). However, thank you for confirming that there are 2 CO2 lost per each krebs cycle.
 
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