Answer to Question #293282 in Biochemistry for Jade

Question

Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase is important for metabolism for the following reasons: 

a. use cellular GTP 

b. forms oxaloacetate from phosphoenolpyruvate 

c. overcomes the irreversibility and pyruvate the kinase reaction 

d. stimulates the activity of pyruvate carboxylase 

e. synthesizes alanine in the liver 

Answer 1

Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase is important for metabolism because it stimulates the activity of pyruvate carboxylase