Metabolic Pathway Mnemonics

Krebs Cycle

Can - Citrate
I - Isocitrate
Keep - Alpha ketoglutarate
Selling - Succinate
Sex - Succinyl-CoA
For - Fumarate
Money - Malate
Officer - Oxaloacetate

Glycolysis

Gray - Glucose
Gulps - Glucose 6 phosphate
Frosting - Fructose 6 phosphate
Filled - Fructose 1,6 bisphosphate
Grapes. - Glyceraldehyde 3 phosphate (& dihydroxyacetone phosphate)
Bisca - 1,3 bisphosphoglycerate
Prepares - 3 phosphoglycerate
Perfect - 2 phosphoglycerate
Pumpkin - phosphoenolpyruvate
Pie - pyruvate

Pentose Phosphate Pathway (Simplified)

Gray - glucose 6 phosphate
Loves - lactone
Gajeel’s - glycerate
Rough - ribulose
Roars - ribose

Pyruvate to ethanol (yeast)

Pact - pyruvate
Among - acetaldehyde
Elves - ethanol

How glycerol enters metabolism

Gajeel’s - glycerol
Giant - glycerol 3-phosphate
Dragon - dihydroxyacetone phosphate
Growl - glyceraldehyde 3 phosphate

GNG 1

Powerful - pyruvate
Ogre’s - oxaloacetate
Projectile - phosphoenolpyruvate

GNG 2

Fried’s - fructose 1,6 bisphosphate
Fierce - fructose 6 phosphate
Glowing - glucose 6 phosphate
Glare - glucose

Ketone body metabolism

Aces - acetyl-CoA
Always - acetoacetyl-CoA
Hold - HMG-CoA
Awesome - acetoacetate
Ass Battles - acetone and beta hydroxybutyrate

FA oxidation (simplified)

Dancing - dehydration
Wizards - water
Defeat - dehydration
Shadows - separation

Glyoxylate Cycle

Cana - citrate
Is - isocitrate
So - succinate
Good - glyoxylate
Making - malate
Outcomes - oxaloacetate

FA synthesis (simplified)

A - attach
Crazy - condensation
Rogue - reduction
Doesn’t - dehydration
Rest - reduction