Module 6 : Microbial Metabolism

Lecture 2: Carbohydrate Catabolism

 

Fig. 3. Glycolysis. (Source, Lehninger, Principles of Biochemistry, Fifth Edition)

Overall reaction of glycolysis

Because 2 moleucles of ATP were needed to get glycolysis started and four molecules of ATP are generated by the process, there is a net gain of two molecules of ATP for each molecule of glucose that is oxidised.