Fatty Acids in Our Cells
(To the tune of "Halls of Montezuma")
Copyright © 2003 Kevin Ahern

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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

 

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