HLSC 2110U Lecture 6: Lecture 7 Glycogen synthesis and other sugars
28 Jan 2019
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Lecture 7: glycogen synthesis and sugars other than glucose. When glucose levels fall down, the liver will remobilize glycogen. Atp is essential for movement muscle glycogen. Muscles do not give glucose but use it for their own use. Glycogen is in the muscle, used inside the muscle itself to produce energy. Glycogen in the liver is broken into glucose and released into the blood. Children have a smaller capacity because their liver is smaller and not as functional. Made up of a few monomers of upd-glucose. Carbon 1-4 of the next glucose and makes a straight line (linear structure) Sometimes they branch, and there is a 1-6 linkage. Glycogen granules in cytoplasm contain enzymes for synthesis. When there is no food, glycogen is used up from the liver. When there is food, glycogen is restored in the liver. Enzymes responsible are always ready to synthesize glycogen.
