Metabolic Significance of Hexose Monophosphate Shunt

The following points highlight the top five metabolic significance of hexose monophosphate shunt. 1. CO2 is the characteristic product in this pathway which is not formed in Embden- Meyerhof pathway. This product is utiĀ­lized for the synthesis of fatty acid and purine bases etc. 2. The reduced NADP (NADPH) formed in this pathway is used in the synthesis of fatty [...]