Metabolic map about propionyl-CoA utilization

Video about oxiddation of fatty acids

Music about fatty acid oxidation

Dr. Ahern adapted the song When Johnny Comes Marching Home, turning it a song about the oxidation of fatty acids.

Download the music here

When Acids Get Oxidized

The fatty acids carried by
CoA, CoA
Are oxidized inside the
mi-to-chon-dri-ay
They get to there as you have seen
By hitching rides on carnitine
Then it goes away
When acids get oxidized

Electrons move through membranes, yes
It’s true, it’s true
They jump from complex I onto
Co-Q, Co-Q
The action can be quite intense
When building proton gradients
And its good for you
When acids get oxidized

The protons pass through complex V
You see, you see
They do this to make lots of
A-TP, TP
The mechanism you should know
Goes through the stages L-T-O
So there's energy
When acids get oxidized
.

Music about the synthesis of fatty acids

Who could imagine that the song When Johnny Comes Marching Home could be converted in a song about the synthesis of fatty acids? Dr. Ahern, of course! :)

Download the music here

When Acids Are Synthesized

The 16 carbon fatty acid, palmitate
Gets all the carbons that it needs from acetate
Which citric acid helps release
From mitochondri - matrices
Oh a shuttle's great
When acids are synthesized

Carboxylase takes substrate and it puts within
Dioxy carbon carried on a biotin
CoA's all gain a quick release
Replaced by larger ACPs
And it all begins
When acids are synthesized

A malonate contributes to the growing chain
Two carbons seven times around again, again
For saturated acyl-ates
There's lots of N-A-DPH
That you must obtain
When acids are synthesized

Palmitic acid made this way all gets released
Desaturases act to make omega-threes
The finished products big and small
Form esters with a glycerol
So you get obese
When acids are synthesized
.

Music about the fatty acids

This music is about the roles of fatty acids in our cells and is based in the song Halls of Montezuma. It was made by Dr. Ahern
(www.davincipress.com/metabmelodies.html).

http://www.mediafire.com/?2exx92e6264493c

Fatty Acids in Our Cells

From the fatty acids in our cells

To the lipids in our brains

We are made of biochemicals

Built in metabolic chains

Using glycolytic ATP

And electron energy

We can synthesize most everything

With the help of Delta G

A cell will tend to pump out sodium

But potassium it imports

It accomplishes this magic with

ATPase antiports

Our bilayer lipid membranes

Protect the cells' insides

Partly made of sphingolipids

We know as gangliosides

When it comes to regulation

The little cell has got it made

It phosphorylates a lot of things

With its own kinase cascade

Stimulated at a hormone site

Metabolic yang and yin

That's turned on by epinephrine

And turned off by insulin