Glycolysis- The Song

None of the pictures are mine, just used for educational purposes. :)

LYRICS

Chorus :

Glycolysis
Helps make energy
In the form of ATP
For you and me

It’s part one of
Cellular respiration
Makes 2 of
Pyruvate, NADH, and ATP when done

Glycolysis happens
In the cytosol
It’s anaerobic
And follows a protocol

Broken down is glucose
Which is really sweet
It releases stored energy
And thermal heat

This all starts with a
Glucose sugar
That consumes ATP
To invest energy

A G6P is made and
A phosphate is striped
A phosphorylation
Caused by the enzyme hexokinase

Next is step 2
Which is a simple shape change
Thanks to the enzyme
Phosphoglucomutase

G6P is isomerized
Into fructose 6 phosphate
No ATP is used
Well isn’t that great

Now moving on
Phosphofructokinase acts here
ATP is consumed
Meaning energy is used

This may seem strange
Because don’t you want to make energy
Well actually using some
Will end up making more

Chorus :

Glycolysis
Helps make energy
In the form of ATP
For you and me

It’s part one of
Cellular respiration
Makes 2 of
Pyruvate, NADH, and ATP when done

Our six carbon molecule
Now splits into two
Creating two 3-carbons
Wow isn’t that cool

Aldolase guarantees
Fructose 1-6 bisphosphate
Splits into DHAP
And G3P

However DHAP
Can’t simply be used
Must be converted to G3P
Before it can pursue

The enzyme isomerase
Is responsible
DHAP is now G3P
Which is optimal

Chorus :

Glycolysis
Helps make energy
In the form of ATP
For you and me

It’s part one of
Cellular respiration
Makes 2 of
Pyruvate, NADH, and ATP when done

From now on
It all happens twice
Since G3P is doubled
And there is no added price

Triphosphate dehydrogenase
In step 6
removes a proton
And electron

They attach to an NAD+
And form NADH
An electron carrier
In a later stage

Inorganic phosphate
Then attaches
1-3 bisphosphoglycerate
Then dispatches

Step seven is next
Phosphoglycerate kinase helps out
A phosphate deattches
Without a doubt

This phosphate then binds
To an ADP
A substrate level phosphorylation
Creating ATP

Moving on to step eight
Phosphoglucomutase
Will mutate
3-phosphoglycerate

2-phosphoglycerate forms
And the phosphates shift
But the composition d
Doesn’t transform

Next we have 9
And due to enolase
Water is removed
And electrons rearranged

This loss of water is a
Redox reaction
Produces PEP
Through this transaction

Chorus :

Glycolysis
Helps make energy
In the form of ATP
For you and me

It’s part one of
Cellular respiration
Makes 2 of
Pyruvate, NADH, and ATP when done

Now comes the
Final part
And substrate level phosphorylation
Begins to start

Pyruvate kinase
Is the enzyme needed
Makes sure the reaction
Is proceeded

Formed is pyruvate
And ATP
By giving the last phosphate
To ADP

This pyruvate is necessary
In later processes
Has lots of energy
Even more than ATP

Now used in glycolysis
As a whole
Is 2 phosphates, NAD+
And a glucose, woah

Through this we made have
two NADH’s
ATP, H20
And pyruvate

Chorus :

Glycolysis
Helps make energy
In the form of ATP
For you and me

It’s part one of
Cellular respiration
Makes 2 of
Pyruvate, NADH, and ATP when done