One of the major products of the methylcitrate cycle is pyruvate. This pyruvate can be used by metabolic enzymes for energy and biomass formation.  The other major product, succinate, is used in the citric acid cycle and helps to carry the reaction forward and restarts the cycle. Succinate is used by the citric acid and glyoxylate cycles to generate oxaloacetate, one of the key substrates necessary to begin the methylcitrate cycle.