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how does the storage volume of glycogen differ between liver and muscle overall and per cell? what % of the cell does it account for?

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there is less glycogen stored per muscel cell but more storage overall due to larger volume of muscle cells

1% in muscle and 10% in liver

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What 2 reasons does a g of fat have more energy than a g of glycogen?

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1) fat is more reduced and the e- can be taken to the ETC for energy
2) glycogen is stored with a large amount of water while fat is not

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how do fat stores of glycogen vs fat differ?

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there is about 800x more energy in fat storage than glycogen storage in most people

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how long can cells be hypoxic for? how long can glycogen be used as an energy source during activity?

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~20s
-90 minutes

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How are glucose residues in glycogen linked? how are the branches linked? and what enzyme initiates glycogen breakdown?

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1) linked by α-(1→4) glycosidic bonds
2) branch points created by α-(1→6) bonds
3) Glycogen phosphorylase catalyzes phosphorylysis of α-(1→4)

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why is there no true reducing end in glycogen?

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glycogenin is attached to a protein via a glycosidic bond, -preventing the free anomeric C of the molecule from functioning as a traditional reducing end

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what is a true reducing end?

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a free anomeric carbon that can participate in chemical rxn’s

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Explain how the structure of glycogen makes it an effective molecule to add / release glucose?

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It has a large number of non-reducing ends which is where we add / remove

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How does glycogen phosphorylase work? what does it produce

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catalyzes the phosphorylysis of α-(1→4) glycosidic bonds using inorganic phosphate to remove glucose from the non-reducing end
-does not break branched points

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what is a phosphorylysis rxn?

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bond cleavage using an inorganic phosphate

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what moleucles are released from the phosphorylysis of glycogen? is ATP needed?

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glycogen residue &
Glucose 1-phosphate
-no ATP is not used

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What is the role of the glycogen debranching enzyme in glycogenolysis? why is this important?

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hydrolyzes α-(1→6) bonds at branch points
-this allows glycogen phosphorylase to continue working since it can only remove glucose redisues to within 4-residues of a α-(1→6) branch point

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what is a limit dextrin?

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a region in glycogen molecule where phosphorylase can no longer work

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explain how the debranching enzyme works?

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it is a bifunctional monomer
1) transferase activity (breaks / reforms α-(1→4) )
2) hydrolysis (breaking α-(1→6) using H2O) to release free glucose

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why is phosphorylysis not used in the GIT to breakdown glycogen if it does not require ATP? what type of reaction is used to breakdown glycogen in the GIT?

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A phosphorylysis rxn would add a phosphate group to glycogen, releasing a phosphorylated glucose, which would not be able to enter the cell through transporters
-hydrolysis is used to breakdown glycogen in the GIT

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what type of reaction is used to break down glycogen in the muscle vs GIT?

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Phosphorylysis in the muscle
Hydrolysis in the GIT

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what does phosphoglucomutase do? why is this important?

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catalyzes the last step of glycogenolysis which converts glucose 1-phosphate to glucose 6-phosphate
-this step initiates the removal of the phosphate group from glucose so that glucose can be released out of the cell

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Describe the conversion of glucose-1-phosphate to glucose-6-phosphate in glycogenolysis

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Glucose 1-phosphate is converted to Glucose-1,6-biphosphate then glucose 6-phosphate by phosphoglucomutase

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what enzyme in gluconeogenesis is phosphoglucomutase similar to?

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phosphoglycerate mutase
-glycolysis and gluconeogenesis

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what does glucose-6-phosphatase do? why it is not present in muscle tissue?

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It removes the phosphate from glucose-6-phosphate producing free glucose
-muscle glycogen is used locally for energy production and doesn’t produce glucose to be sent out to other cells

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why is glucose-6-phoshatase not found in the cytosol? where is it found?

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it is non-specific and will work on a variety of substrates so it is only present in the ER (not cytosol)

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what is the substrate transport model for glucose-6-phosphatase? what transporters are T1,T2,T3?

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the movement of glucose 6-phosphate from the cytosol into the ER lumen through G6P transporter (T1) where it is hydrolyzed by G6Ptase to release glucose and Pi
-Glucose transporter (T2) and Pi T3) transporter move it out of the ER into the cytosol

G6P (T1) Glucose (T2) Pi (T3) transporter

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what must happen to Glucose 1-phosphate before it can be converted to glycogen? why does this happen?

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glucose-1-phosphate must be activated by UDP to form UDP-glucose
-this allows UDP-G to act as a donor to add glucose to the growing glycogen chain

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explain the structure of UDP-glucose

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It is a UMP molecule linked to Glucose 1-phosphate

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how is a sugar nucleotide synthesized? what bonds are broken / formed? What drives this reaction forward and what enzyme is used to do this?
1 ) a UTP molecule and G1P forms UDP-glucose and Pi with UDP-glucose pyrophosphorylase 2) breaking and forming a phosphoanhydride so there is not much energy released 3) the hydrolysis of phosphoanhydride bond in inorganic pyrophosphate (PPi) to release Pi -uses inorganic pyrophosphatase
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Explain the significance of pyrophosphate in metabolism
pyrophosphate serves as a critical energy carrier and regulator -Its hydrolysis releases significant free energy, driving reactions forward contributing to efficiency and directionality of pathways
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TRUE or FALSE: formation of sugar nucleotides is irreversible
true
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TRUE or FALSE: the nucleotide moiety in nucleotide sugars undergoes covalent interactions with the enzyme which contributes to catalytic activity
false; it undergoes non-covalent interactions
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TRUE or FALSE: UDP is a good leaving group of glucose
true; this allows it to be broken off releasing enough energy to add glucose to the growing glycogen chain
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TRUE or FALSE: phosphate is a good leaving group of glucose
false; it does not release much energy
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TRUE or FALSE: attaching a sugar to a nucleotide acts as an indicator that it will be involved in catabolic rxn's and attaching a sugar to a phosphate indicates it wil be used in biosynthesis
False; attaching a sugar to a nucleotide indicates biosynthesis attaching a sugar to a phosphate indicates catabolism
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what is the role of glycogen synthase? explain the mechanism
it catalyzes the formation of α-(1→4) glycosidic bonds -the non-reducing end of glycogen attacks the anomeric C of UDP-glucose forming a glycogen residue 1 glucose longer and UDP
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What enzyme creates branches in glycogen, and how does it do so?
glycogen branching enzyme breaks α-(1→4) to create α-(1→6) glycosidic branches by transferring a block of 6-8 glucose residues to form a new branch
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what reaction is used to regenerate UTP to make UDP-glucose?
NDK rxn
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Why is branching important in glycogen structure?
1) creates more non-reducing ends 2) increases solubility of glycogen 3) reduces osmotic pressure -less water is needed to store glycogen as compared to glucose, preventing the cell from bursting
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TRUE or FALSE: when branching glycogen, the block of 6-8 residues only needs a non-reducing end if the residue chain its coming from is < 10 residues long
false; all blocks must include a non-reduing end and come from a chain of atleast 10 residues long -this ensures at least 4 residues are left behind
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how long must the residue chain for branching be? why?
it must be at least 10 residues long in order to leave at least 4 behind -glycogen synthase can only add to a chain at least 4 glucose residues long
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how many residues away from the old branch must the new glycogen branch be?
4 residues away
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What is the role of glycogenin in glycogen synthesis?
Glycogenin autocatalytically adds glucose residues to itself up to 6-7 units, after which glycogen synthase takes over
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What regulates the size of glycogen and the amount of glucose additions done by glycogen synthase?
glycogen synthase must be able to sense glycogenin protein and once it gets too big the synthase will stop working
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What are mature glycogen particles called, and how are they structured?
Mature glycogen particles, called glycosomes, have 12 tiers of branches with approximately 2 branches per tier and 13 residues per branch
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what are the 2 forms of glycogen phosphorylase? how do these two forms behave? what state do they favour? when are they active / inactive?
phosphorylase a: more active (phosphorylated) -favours R state phosphorylase b: less active (dephosphorylated) -favours T state both are involved in the phosphorylysis of α-(1→4) glycosidic bonds in glycogen to form glucose 1-phosphate
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what is the role of phosphorylase b kinase? what activates it?
it phosphorylates, phosphorylase b, bringing it to the active phosphorylase a state -activated by glucagon (via PKA), epinephrine (via PKA), Ca+ and high [AMP]
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what is the role of phosphorylase a phosphatase (PP1)? what activates this enzyme?
it converts dephosphorylates, phosphorylase ba, converting it to phosphorylase b (less active form) -activated by insulin, G6P and glucose
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when is phosphorylase in its active form? when is its in its less active form?
phosphorylase a (active) when phosphorylated phosphorylase b (less active) when dephosphorylated
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what is PP1?
phosphorylase a phosphatase
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True or False: phosphorylase b is more senstive to allosteric effectors than phosphorylase a, why or why not?
TRUE -Phosphorylase b's heightened sensitivity to allosteric effectors allows rapid response to glycogen breakdown in response to the cell's immediate energy needs, especially in muscle tissue
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True or False: the phosphatase isozymes in the liver are more sensitive to allosteric regulation than in the muscle
false; it is more sensitive in the muscle -Muscle glycogen phosphorylase is more sensitive to allosteric regulation
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why is AMP not an important regulator for phosphorylase b in the liver?
high levels of AMP signal low energy levels, the liver is unlikely to use its own glycogen for energy because it will save it for regulation of [blood glucose] - it will likely turn to other fuel sources such as FA for energy needs
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how does glycogen phosphorylase in the liver act as a glucose sensor? what impact do glucose levels have on phosphorylase?
influx of glucose changes configuration of phosphorylase a, shifting it from the more active form in the R state (no glucose bound) to the less active form in the T state (glucose bound) of phosphorylase a the change in configuration sets up the phosphate groups to be dephosphorylated once insulin signals stimulate phosphorylase a phosphatase
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what is the most active form of glycogen phosphorylase?
phosphorylase a in the R state (most active form)
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what is the least active form of phosphorylase?
The T form (ATP/G6P bound) of phosphorylase b
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what will push phosphorylase a to the R state vs T state? which is more active?
Glucose binding will shift phosphorylase b to the T state (less active) No glucose bound keeps it in the R state (most active)
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what will push phosphorylase b to the R state vs T state? which is more active?
AMP binding will shift phosphorylase b to the R state (more active) ATP / G6P binding will shift it to the T state (less active)
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what is a phosphorylase?
an enzyme that uses an inorganic phosphate to remove a phosphate group
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what is a kinase?
an enzyme that adds a phosphate group
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what is a phosphatase?
an enzyme that removes a phosphate group by hydrolysis of phosphate ester bond
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what 2 forms is glycogen synthase found in? when is it active? when is it inactive? what regulates it?
glycogen synthase a: dephosphorylated (active) -phosphorylated by phosphorylase b kinase (stimulated by glucagon) glycogen synthase b: phosphorylated (inactive) -dephosphorylated by phosphorylase a phosphatase (PP1) (stimulated by insulin)
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how is glycogen synthesis / degradtaion regulated? how is G6P involved in this regulation?
reciprocally -G6P activates glycogen synthase and inhibits glycogen phosphorylase b
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what is von gierke disease? how does it affect glycogen metabolism?
caused by a deficiency in glucose-6-phosphatase, leading to enlarged liver and hypoglycemia due to an inability to release glucose
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what transporter deficiency is associated with glucose-6-phosphatase deficiency (type 1A disease) ?
T1 (G6P transporter), T2 (glucose transporter), T3 (Pi transporter)
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which of the molecules generate the largest amount of ATP if aerobically catabloized to CO2 and H2O in hepatocytes: Lactate, PEP, 3-PG, Acetyl coA, 1,3-BPG ## Footnote *** will be on final for 10 mark Q, with a fuel source and a certail body cell
lactate 32 in liver and 30 in muscle

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