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Which process is NOT a metabolic fate for pyruvate in liver tissue?

a) transamination to alanine
b) carboxylation to oxaloacetate
c) reduction to lactate
d) oxidative decarboxylation to acetyl-CoA
e) phosphorylation to phosphoenolpyruvate

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Answer:

e) phosphorylation to phosphoenolpyruvate

Step-by-step explanation:

phosphoenol pyruvate is not the fate of the pyruvate . pyruvate can convert into the phosphoenole pyruvate in the reverse of the glycolysis which will utilize the ATP . So , this can not be the fate of pyruvate because in the breakdown of the glucose through glycolysis pyruvate is the end product and phosphoenol pyruvate is the intermediate .

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