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  • Happens @ Mitochondria Matrix

  • Aerobic so NEEDS O2

  • Makes 0 ATP

  • It's transforming the pyruvate (from glycolysis) into acetyl-CoA so it can do stuff in the KREBS CYCLE

(Study Blue, 2014)

  • So pyruvate just be riding on the transport protein into the mitochondrion

  • The second it's in, it turns into acetyl COenzyme A

  • It's carboxyl group gets is robbed ... this is DECARBOXYLATION (1)

  • Pyruvate has to pay 2 electrons and 1 proton, making NAD+ reduce  toNADH+H+.....DEHYDROGENATION (2)

  • Now coenzyme A turns into acetyl CoA when sulfer attaches onto acetate (3)

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