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Glycogen (Starch) Synthase

Known as: Glycogen Synthase [Chemical/Ingredient], Glycogen synthase, Synthase, Glycogen 
An enzyme that catalyzes the transfer of D-glucose from UDPglucose into 1,4-alpha-D-glucosyl chains. EC 2.4.1.11.
National Institutes of Health

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C1 peptideGlycogen Synthase I

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Glucosyltransferaseshexosyltransferase
Glycogen synthase:CCnc:Pt:Ser:QnIn BloodProcess of secretionStarch

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Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Cell-Extracellular Matrix Interactions Stimulate the AP-1 Transcription Factor in an Integrin-Linked Kinase- and Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3-Dependent Manner
ABSTRACT Integrin-mediated interactions of cells with components of the extracellular matrix regulate cell survival, cell… 
Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
Effects of growth hormone on fuel utilization and muscle glycogen synthase activity in normal humans.
To examine the insulin antagonistic effects of growth hormone (GH), seven healthy subjects underwent, in random order, two 5-h… 
Highly Cited
1982
Highly Cited
1982
Reconstitution of a Mg‐ATP‐dependent protein phosphatase and its activation through a phosphorylation mechanism
Highly Cited
1982
Highly Cited
1982
Correlative histochemistry of some enzymes of carbohydrate metabolism in preneoplastic and neoplastic lesions in the rat liver.
The livers from a total of 51 Sprague-Dawley rats treated with different doses of N-nitrosomorpholine (80-120 mg/l in the… 
Highly Cited
1978
Highly Cited
1978
Activation of glycogen synthase in rat adipocytes by insulin and glucose involves increased glucose transport and phosphorylation.
Highly Cited
1976
Highly Cited
1976
Purification, properties, and substrate specificities of phosphoprotein phosphatase(s) from rabbit liver.
Highly Cited
1976
Highly Cited
1976
The purification and properties of rabbit skeletal muscle glycogen synthase.
Glycogen synthase a was purified over 500-fold by a procedure which involved solubilisation of the enzyme from a protein-glycogen… 
Highly Cited
1973
Highly Cited
1973
Hydrophobic chromatography: use for purification of glycogen synthetase.
A homologous series of omega-aminoalkylagaroses [Sepharose-NH(CH(2))(n)NH(2)] that varied in the length of their hydrocarbon side… 
Highly Cited
1971
Highly Cited
1971
The control of liver glycogen synthetase phosphatase by phosphorylase.
The activation of glycogen synthetase in a liver gel filtrate and the latency by which it is normally preceded have been studied… 
Highly Cited
1970
Highly Cited
1970
The effect of diabetes and insulin on liver glycogen synthetase activation.
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