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Carbohydrates: Types and Functions

Carbohydrates are compounds made of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen that include sugars and starches. They contain hydroxyl groups and usually a ketone or aldehyde group. Glucose is the major product of digestion and fuel source for cells. Glycogen and glycoproteins serve as storage forms in the body. There are three main types of carbohydrates: monosaccharides like glucose and fructose, disaccharides like sucrose and lactose formed from two monosaccharides, and polysaccharides like starch, glycogen, and cellulose made of many monosaccharide units.

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Carbohydrates: Types and Functions

Carbohydrates are compounds made of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen that include sugars and starches. They contain hydroxyl groups and usually a ketone or aldehyde group. Glucose is the major product of digestion and fuel source for cells. Glycogen and glycoproteins serve as storage forms in the body. There are three main types of carbohydrates: monosaccharides like glucose and fructose, disaccharides like sucrose and lactose formed from two monosaccharides, and polysaccharides like starch, glycogen, and cellulose made of many monosaccharide units.

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  • Overview
  • Disaccharides
  • Saccharides

Biochemistry ~ Carbohydrates

OVERVIEW - compounds that contain at least 3 carbon atoms + hydroxyl groups and usually an aldehyde
or ketone group
glucose
= major product of digestion (some galactose and fructose also produced)
= major fuel source oxidized by cells for energy
= stored as glycogen or triacylglycerols after a meal
= converted to glucose 6-phosphate when enters cell, then G6P enters glycolysis ( NADH
& ATP) or pentose phosphate pathway ( NADPH)
Glycogen:
- major storage form of carbs in animals
- largest stores in mm and LV
- mm glycogen used to generate ATP for mm contraction
- LV glycogen used to maintain blood glucose during fasting or exercise
- LV produces glucose from glycogenolysis & gluconeogenesis
A.) Types: MONO- - cannot be reduced or hydrolyzed into smaller or simpler sugars
SACCHARIDES - produced by the breakdown of dietary carbohydrates
- major energy source for the body
- usually found as D-series vs its enantiomer (mirror image) L-series

Structure: (formula = CH2O)n


- all of the above are hexose (6carbon) monosaccharides)
- mainly ring structures where aldehyde or ketone group reacts with hydroxyl group
- structural formula is C6H12O6 (differ in the position of the =O)
- epimers: stereoisomers that differ in the position of the hydroxyl group at only 1 assymetric carbon
- aldose or ketose depending on aldehyde or ketone as most oxidized functional group

Fructose glucose Glucose: - most important & abundant


- body uses glucose to synthesize other carbs
- glucose, - major source of fuel in the body
- fructose,
- galactose, Fructose: can be converted to glucose
- mannose - a ketose (all others = aldoses)
(all isomers of - forms furanose rings vs. pyranose rings
eachother) - metabolized mainly in the liver  glyceraldehydes 3-P (intermediate of glycolysis)
- can be produced from sorbitol (generated from glucose)

Galactose:
- converted to glucose when taken into the body

Mannose:
- constituent found in the glycoproteins of plant gums

DI-SACCHARIDE: - 2 monosaccharides covalently bonded via glycosidic attachment


- glycosidic attachment can also bond carbs to purines, pyrimidines, aromatic rings, lipids etc…
- sucrose, - bond is between anomeric carbon of one molecule & different C of 2nd molecule
lactose, maltose,
isomaltose Sucrose: (glucose + fructose)  table sugar
- both use anomeric carbon  ring can’t open  NO alpha or beta ring structure

Lactose: (glucose β-1,4 linked to galactose) - milk sugar


- galactose uses anomeric carbon
- glucose does not use anomeric C, so can open and form alpha or beta ring structure

Maltose: (glucose + glucose)


- one glucose uses anomeric carbon
- other glucose does not use anomeric C, so can open and form alpha or beta ring structure

Isomaltose: (glucose + glucose) – like maltose


- bound by alpha-1,6 glycosidic linkage (vs. alpha-1,4 in maltose)
POLY- >6 monosaccharides
SACCHARIDE: - can be linear or branched
- major role = storage of monosaccharides (starch, amylase, amylopectin)
Amylase, - major role = structural support (cellulose, chitin)
amylopectin,
glycogen, inulin
Amylose: ( lots of glucose molecules)
- non branching (unbranched) starch of alpha-1,4 glycosidic linkages
- spiraling helical shape or coil
- abundant in many plants
Amylopectin: 1
- branching starch of alpha-1,4 glycosidic linkages
- branch points = alpha- 1.6 linkages
- branch points at about every 24- 30 glucose residues (not how described in H.M. pg 125)
Glycogen:

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