Glycolysis

Glycolysis pathway :

-  Glycose + lysis
  (Glucose + breakdown)
-  Metabolic pathway (catalytic)
-  also called EMP pathway (Embden Meyerhof Parnas Pathway , because they discovered most            common glycolysis pathway)
- Glucose (6 carbon sugar) splits into  2 molecules of Pyruvate (3 carbon sugar)
- Glucose C₆H₁₂O₆       to Pyruvate  (CH₃COCOO⁻ + H^{+    )}
- Glycolysis can occur in with or without oxygen
- In presence of O2     first stage of glycolysis is called cellular respiration.
- without   O2    process is called fermentation.
- In eukaryotes glycolysis occur in cytosol.

    The overall process of glycolysis is:

Glucose + 2 NAD⁺ + 2 ADP + 2 P_i → 2 Pyruvate + 2 NADH + 2 H⁺ + 2 ATP + 2 H₂O