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(Redirected from Glycogen breakdown) Breakdown of glycogen

Not to be confused with Glycolysis, Glycogenesis, or Gluconeogenesis.
Glycogen
Glucose
Glucose-6-phosphate

Glycogenolysis is the breakdown of glycogen (n) to glucose-1-phosphate and glycogen (n-1). Glycogen branches are catabolized by the sequential removal of glucose monomers via phosphorolysis, by the enzyme glycogen phosphorylase.

Mechanism

In the muscles, glycogenosis begins due to the binding of cAMP to phosphorylate kinase, converting the latter to its active form so it can convert phosphorylase b to phosphorylase a, which is responsible for catalyzing the breakdown of glycogen.

The overall reaction for the breakdown of glycogen to glucose-1-phosphate is:

glycogen(n residues) + Pi ⇌ glycogen(n-1 residues) + glucose-1-phosphate

Here, glycogen phosphorylase cleaves the bond linking a terminal glucose residue to a glycogen branch by substitution of a phosphoryl group for the α linkage.

Glucose-1-phosphate is converted to glucose-6-phosphate (which often ends up in glycolysis) by the enzyme phosphoglucomutase.

Glucose residues are phosphorolysed from branches of glycogen until four residues before a glucose that is branched with a α linkage. Glycogen debranching enzyme then transfers three of the remaining four glucose units to the end of another glycogen branch. This exposes the α branching point, which is hydrolysed by α glucosidase, removing the final glucose residue of the branch as a molecule of glucose and eliminating the branch. This is the only case in which a glycogen metabolite is not glucose-1-phosphate. The glucose is subsequently phosphorylated to glucose-6-phosphate by hexokinase.

Enzymes

  1. Glycogen phosphorylase with Pyridoxal phosphate as prosthetic group
  2. Alpha-1,4 → alpha-1,4 glucan transferase
  3. Alpha-1,6-glucosidase
  4. Phosphoglucomutase
  5. Glucose-6-phosphatase (absent in muscles)

Function

Glycogenolysis takes place in the cells of the muscle and liver tissues in response to hormonal and neural signals. In particular, glycogenolysis plays an important role in the fight-or-flight response and the regulation of glucose levels in the blood.

In myocytes (muscle cells), glycogen degradation serves to provide an immediate source of glucose-6-phosphate for glycolysis, to provide energy for muscle contraction. Glucose-6-phosphate can not pass through the cell membrane, and is therefore used solely by the myocytes that produce it.

In hepatocytes (liver cells), the main purpose of the breakdown of glycogen is for the release of glucose into the bloodstream for uptake by other cells. The phosphate group of glucose-6-phosphate is removed by the enzyme glucose-6-phosphatase, which is not present in myocytes, and the free glucose exits the cell via GLUT2 facilitated diffusion channels in the hepatocyte cell membrane.

Regulation

Glycogenolysis is regulated hormonally in response to blood sugar levels by glucagon and insulin, and stimulated by epinephrine during the fight-or-flight response. Insulin potently inhibits glycogenolysis.

In myocytes, glycogen degradation may also be stimulated by neural signals; glycogenolysis is regulated by epinephrine and calcium released by the sarcoplasmic reticulum.

Glucagon has no effect on muscle glycogenolysis.

Calcium binds with calmodulin and the complex activates phosphorylase kinase.

Clinical significance

Parenteral (intravenous) administration of glucagon is a common human medical intervention in diabetic emergencies when sugar cannot be given orally. It can also be administered intramuscularly.

Pathology

Main article: Glycogen storage disease

See also

References

  1. ^ DL Nelson & MM Cox (2008). Lehninger principles of biochemistry (5th ed.). New York: W.H. Freeman. pp. 595-596. ISBN 978-0-7167-7108-1. OCLC 191854286.
  2. Paredes-Flores MA, Rahimi N, Mohiuddin SS (9 January 2024). Biochemistry, Glycogenolysis. StatPearls Publishing. PMID 32119304.
  3. ^ Vasudevan DM, S S, Vaidyanathan K (2 June 2016). Textbook of Biochemistry for Medical Students. Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers Pvt. Limited. ISBN 978-93-5465-648-4.
  4. Sargsyan A, Herman MA (2019). "Regulation of Glucose Production in the Pathogenesis of Type 2 Diabetes". Current Diabetes Reports. 19 (9): 77. doi:10.1007/s11892-019-1195-5. PMC 6834297. PMID 31377934.
  5. Lodish, et al. (2007). Molecular Cell Biology (6th ed.). W. H. Freeman and Company. p. 658. ISBN 978-1-4292-0314-2.


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