Embden-Meyerhof pathway

Embden-Meyerhof pathway
(em\'den mi\'er-hof)
A pathway that degrades glucose to pyruvate; the six-carbon stage converts glucose to fructose 1,6-bisphosphate, and the three-carbon stage produces ATP while changing glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate to pyruvate.

Microbiology. . 2009.

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