Ten-step cytoplasmic pathway converting glucose → 2 pyruvate with net +2 ATP and +2 NADH. Universal across domains of life; hexokinase, PFK-1, pyruvate kinase are regulatory nodes.
Glycolysis (Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas)
Related concepts
- Glucose (biochemical hub)
- ATP/ADP cycle
- NAD+/NADH cycle
- Hexokinase / glucokinase
- Phosphofructokinase-1 (PFK-1)
- Pyruvate kinase
- Gluconeogenesis
- Cori cycle
- Lactic fermentation
- Pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDC)
- Insulin
- Hallmark: deregulating cellular energetics
- EMP pathway (Embden-Meyerhof 1933)
- Pasteur effect (1860)
- Warburg effect (1924)
- Glucokinase (Cardenas 1972)
- Cori cycle (1929)