MCB 2000 Exam 6 Questions with 100% Correct Answers
MCB 2000 Exam 6 Questions with 100% Correct Answers What is the chemical structure of glycogen? - multiple glucose monomers bound together highly branched homopolymer how is glycogen linked - branches - α-1,6 linkage chain linkages - α-1,4 linkage What enzymes are involved in glycogen degradation? What reactions do they catalyze? - 1. Glycogen phosphorylase -- phosphorolysis reaction 2. Transferase -- shifts a small oligosaccharide 3. α-1,6-glucosidase -- debranching enzyme 4. Phosphoglucomutase -- form glucose 6 phosphate α-1,6-glucosidase - debranching enzyme that cleaves the α-1,6 bond --- release free glucose its a hydrolysis reaction transferase - shifts a small oligosaccharide
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