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Friday, September 16, 2011

Music about fermentation

I like very much this music made by Dr. Ahern (www.davincipress.com/metabmelodies.html)... :)
It is about fermentation and is based in the famous Oh Susannah!

Here it is the link to download it:
http://www.mediafire.com/?zhbfbz91u70ca10


Oh, late last night I went to jog
when everything was still
I came upon a gravel road
a-windin’ up the hill
I don’t know why I did it but
I played a game with death
Ran up that hill in double time
And held in all my breath

Fermentation!
I need some NAD+
my cells are lackin’ oxygen
But using ATP

‘bout half way up I felt the burn
My hip down to my knee
if only I had stayed awake
In biochemistry
then I’d have had a warning, but
regrets were just too late
I stood in pain - my body was
reducing pyruvate!

Fermentation!
I need some NAD+
my cells are lackin’ oxygen
But using ATP
Well up came my professor who
was trailin’ close behind
he told me how fermenting was
a process most unkind
Oh ATP is energy
It’s keeping you alive
It’s mostly made by protons mov- ing
through the complex five

Fermentation!
I need some NAD+
my cells are lackin’ oxygen
But using ATP

In making ATP a pro- ton gradient is key
to ADP’s phosphoryla- tion, oxidatively
Electrons pass through complex four
And oxygen, you know
picks up four more electrons and

Fermentation!
I need some NAD+
my cells are lackin’ oxygen
But using ATP

I hope that you can clearly see
Exactly what I meant
That oxygen is needed for
The proton gra-di-ent
your muscles work in overdrive
And use up ATP
you might be breathin’ hard but lack sufficient energy
Fermentation!
I need some NAD+
my cells are lackin’ oxygen
But using ATP

You’re in a heap o’ trouble and
this breath may be your last
if you can’t make some ATP
and NAD+ real fast
It’s lactate dehydrogenase
To save the day, you see
Turn pyruvate to lactate and
Produce more NAD+!

Fermentation!
I need some NAD+
my cells are lackin’ oxygen
But using ATP

The NAD+’s important,
Are You gettin’ all of this?
it gets fed back into the pathway
of glycolysis”
It hit my ear, it was so clear
and all made sense to me
Although I had no oxygen
I still made ATP

Fermentation!
I need some NAD+
my cells are lackin’ oxygen
But using ATP
For all he’d done I took my prof
to sit down for a drink
admitting that his lesson earlier
had made me think
I took a swig of ale
And grinning wide, I said with glee
Oh, fermentation hurts but all in all
It’s fine by me

Fermentation!
I need some NAD+
my cells are lackin’ oxygen
But using ATP
makes double H2O

Fermentation!

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