AmiGO: glycolysis Details

Term Information

Accession

GO:0006096

Ontology

biological process

Synonyms

related: anaerobic glycolysis

related: modifed Embden-Meyerhof pathway

alt_id: GO:0019641

alt_id: GO:0019642

exact: Embden-Meyerhof pathway

exact: Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas pathway

Definition

The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the breakdown of a monosaccharide (generally glucose) into pyruvate, with the concomitant production of a small amount of ATP. Pyruvate may be converted to ethanol, lactate, or other small molecules, or fed into the TCA cycle. [source: ISBN:0716720094]

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