glycogenin glucosyltransferase

Glycogen is a branched polymer of glucose that acts as a store of energy in times of nutritional sufficiency for utilization in… (More)

Despite decades of studying muscle glycogen in many metabolic situations, surprisingly little is known regarding its regulation… (More)

Dietary l-arginine (Arg) supplementation reduces white-fat gain in diet-induced obese rats but the underlying mechanisms are… (More)

Glycogenin is a glycosyltransferase that functions as the autocatalytic initiator for the synthesis of glycogen in eukaryotic… (More)

Changes in dietary macronutrient intake alter muscle and blood substrate availability and are important for regulating gene… (More)

Glycogen is an important storage reserve of glucose present in many organisms, from bacteria to humans. Its biosynthesis is… (More)

To investigate the effect of exercise on GLUT-4, hexokinase, and glycogenin gene expression in human skeletal muscle, 10… (More)

The major yeast glycogen synthase, Gsy2p, is inactivated by phosphorylation and activated by the allosteric ligand glucose-6-P… (More)

The discovery of glycogenin as a self-glucosylating protein that primes glycogen synthesis has significantly increased our… (More)

We recently reported that muscle contains a trichloroacetic acid-precipitable component having Mr approx. 400 kDa that can be… (More)