A Song About Glycolysis

Pathway of Glycolysis set to "American Pie" by Don McLean
All images used belong to their respective creators! This is just for my class so I doubt anyone will watch it besides my professor, but just in case...

Lyrics:
A long, long time ago
I can still remember how
That glycolytic pathway would go
And I knew if I got extra credit
I could take a song and edit
The lyrics just to show all that I know

The thought of no glucose makes me shiver
Without it I would never
Get to take one more step
We don’t store that much ATP in prep

I couldn't remember if I tried
This mechanism without a guide
But now I hold this knowledge inside
And can repeat glycolysis with pride

[Chorus:]
Soooo this is how our bodies use glucose
We can track the pathway and see where it all goes
So ATP can power us from our heads to our toes
That is, until we decompose
That is until we decompose

[Verse 1]
Hexokinase takes a phosphate
From ATP and gives it to glucose
Makin’ glucose 6-phosphate
Now we know it can’t exit the cell
So phosphoglucose isomerase
Commits to makin’ G-6P a five member ring

Cause in order for us to proceed
We need to have somewhere where we
Can add a second phosphate
Which phosphofructokinase does just great

Now we have fructose 1,6-bisphosphate
And here’s where the pathway may complicate
Because aldolase ends in two results
And for now our pathway comes to a halt

[Chorus:]
So this is how our bodies use glucose
We can track the pathway and see where it all goes
It powers our bodies from our heads to our toes
That is, until we decompose
That is until we decompose

[Verse 2]
Aldolase take fructose 1,6 biphos
N’ makes a phosphorylated dihydroxyacetooone
Which could mean our energy’s blown
The other product’s glyceraldehyde 3-phos
Which is what we need to get DHAP to be
Using triose phosphate isomerase

Now we have two glyceraldehydes
Acted on by GAP dehydrogenase
Which takes hydrogens from the substrate with speed
And transfers ‘em to NAD+

And breaking this bond gives us energy
To put an inorganic phosphate on the scene
Thanks to the thioester intermede’
So now we can proceed

[Chorus:]
Soooo this is how our bodies use glucose
We can track the pathway and see where it all goes
It powers our bodies from our heads to our toes
That is, until we decompose
That is until we decompose

[Verse 3]
Now its about time we made ATP
Using 1,3-bisphospho-glycerate
A kinase by the same naaaaAAAAAme
Will take its phosphates to add em to ADP
So now our ATP count is two
But we still have more pathwayyyy to doooo

Because now we have 3-phosphoglycerate
And for the Krebs cycle we need pyruvate
So we’ll move a phosphate from C3 to 2
Using phosphoglycerate mutase

So now with 2-phosphoglycerate
We’ll dehydrate with enolase
S’now we have phosphoenolpyruvate
And can make 2 more ATP

[Chorus:]
Soooo this is how our bodies use glucose
We can track the pathway and see where it all goes
It powers our bodies from our heads to our toes
That is, until we decompose
That is until we decompose

Everybody!

So this is how our bodies use glucose
We can track the pathway and see where it all goes
It powers our bodies from our heads to our toes
That is, until we decompose
That is until we decompose