Question: The malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum does not carry out oxidative phosphorylation and therefore does not use the citric acid cycle to generate reduced cofactors. Instead,

The malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum does not carry out oxidative phosphorylation and therefore does not use the citric acid cycle to generate reduced cofactors. Instead, the parasite converts amino acid-derived -ketoglutarate to succinate. Write an equation for the (-ketoglutarate ( succinate conversion that follows
(a) The oxidative (clockwise) path of the citric acid cycle or
(b) The reductive (counterclockwise) path of the cycle.

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