Glycogen Metabolism Quiz

What is the active form of glucose involved in glycogen synthesis?

What type of glycosidic bonds are present in glycogen at branching points?

What is the rate-limiting step in glycogen synthesis?

What enzyme catalyzes branching in glycogen?

What is the product of glycogen breakdown by glycogen phosphorylase?

What is the primary linkage between glucose units in the main chain of glycogen?

Which enzyme is responsible for the breakdown of glucose units from the non-reduced end of glycogen?

Where does intense glycogen synthesis occur?

What is the substrate of glycogen synthesis?

How is glycogen breakdown in muscle different from that in the liver?

Which enzyme converts glucose-1-phosphate to glucose-6-phosphate in cells?

What is the enzyme responsible for hydrolyzing glucose-6-phosphate to free glucose in the liver?

Which hormone increases the synthesis of glycogen in the liver and skeletal muscle?

What happens to glycogen synthase when it is phosphorylated?

Why can't muscle glycogen increase blood sugar levels?

Glycogen Metabolism: Key Concepts

Free glucose from glycogenolysis in the liver is released into the bloodstream for other tissues' use.
Liver glycogen stores fluctuate, increasing in the well-fed state and depleting during fasting.
Muscle glycogen is minimally affected by short fasting periods and moderately decreased in prolonged fasting.
Sugar nucleotides are crucial for various hexose transformation and polymerization reactions.
UDP-Glucose, a sugar nucleotide, is formed by a condensation reaction between a nucleoside triphosphate and a sugar phosphate.
Glycogen consists of α(1→4) glycosidic bonds and contains α(1→6) glycosidic bonds at branching points.
Glycogen synthesis begins with glucose-6-phosphate, which is formed from free glucose by specific enzymes.
The synthesis of glycogen involves UDP-glucose as the active form of glucose and requires energy from ATP and UTP.
Glycogen synthesis is initiated by UDP-glucose, with glycogenin acting as a receptor for glucose residues when glycogen is depleted.
The rate-limiting step in glycogen synthesis is the glycogen synthase step, which forms α(1-4) glycosidic bonds.
Branching in glycogen occurs after at least 11 glucose units and is catalyzed by the branching enzyme.
Glycogen breakdown involves glycogen phosphorylase breaking α-1,4 glycoside bonds, leading to the release of glucose-1-phosphate.

Test your knowledge of glycogen metabolism with this quiz. Explore key concepts such as glycogenolysis, glycogen synthesis, sugar nucleotides, and the enzymes involved in glycogen breakdown and synthesis.