Glycogen phosphorylase action

Dephosphorylation of glycogen phosphorylase is carried out by phospho-protein phosphatase 1. The action of phosphoprotein phosphatase 1 inactivates glycogen phosphorylase. 

Be Pyridoxine, pyridoxal, pyridoxamine Coenzyme in transamination and decarboxylation of amino acids and glycogen phosphorylase role in steroid hormone action Disorders of amino acid metabolism, convulsions... 

Pyridoxal phosphate is a coenzyme for many enzymes involved in amino acid metabolism, especially in transamination and decarboxylation. It is also the cofactor of glycogen phosphorylase, where the phosphate group is catalytically important. In addition, vitamin Bg is important in steroid hormone action where it removes the hormone-receptor complex from DNA binding, terminating the action of the hormones. In vitamin Bg deficiency, this results in increased sensitivity to the actions of low concentrations of estrogens, androgens, cortisol, and vitamin D. 

FIGURE 6-31 Regulation of glycogen phosphorylase activity by covalent modification. In the more active form of the enzyme, phosphorylase a, specific Ser residues, one on each subunit, are phosphorylated. Phosphorylase a is converted to the less active phosphorylase b by enzymatic loss of these phosphoryl groups, promoted by phosphorylase phosphatase. Phosphorylase b can be reconverted (reactivated) to phosphorylase a by the action of phosphorylase kinase. 

The existence of cAMP as a compound mediating the action of adrenaline and glucagon on glycogen phosphorylase was first recognized in 1956 by Sutherland.168169 However, for many years most biochemists regarded cAMP as a curiosity and the regulatory chemistry of phosphorylase as an unusual specialization. That view was altered drastically when cAMP was found to function as a second messenger in the action of over 20 different hormones. Phosphorylation by... 

Arsenate will replace phosphate in all phospho-rolytic reactions, e.g., in the cleavage of glycogen by glycogen phosphorylase, of sucrose by sucrose phosphorylase, and in the action of purine nucleoside phosphorylase.b Glucose 1-arsenate or ribose-1-arsenate is presumably a transient intermediate which is hydrolyzed to glucose. The overall process is called arsenolysis. Another reaction in which arsenate can replace phosphate is the oxidation of glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate in the presence of P to form 1,3-bisphosphoglycerate ... 

Glycogen phosphorylase and glycogen synthase alone are insufficient to synthesize and degrade glycogen. Synthesis also requires the action of the branching enzyme amylo-(l,4 —> 1,6-transglycosylase,97... 

C. Cori and G. Cori demonstrated the reversible action of glycogen phosphorylase. 

Figure 11. Double reciprocal plot of the action of the glucosidase-transferase on glycogen phosphorylase limit dextrin in the presence ofTris(ll).

Phosphorylase a is the active form of glycogen phosphorylase, and this can now catalyze the conversion of glycogen to glucose 1-phosphate. The entire process is shown in Fig. 11-26, which depicts the action of epinephrine on a liver or muscle cell. 

Pyridoxamine amino acids and glycogen phosphorylase modulation of steroid hormone action ... 

Vitamin Be has a central role in the metabolism of amino acids in transaminase reactions (and hence the interconversion and catabolism of amino acids and the synthesis of nonessential amino acids), in decarboxylation to yield biologically active amines, and in a variety of elimination and replacement reactions. It is also the cofactor for glycogen phosphorylase and a variety of other enzymes. In addition, pyridoxal phosphate, the metabolically active vitamer, has a role in the modulation of steroid hormone action and the regulation of gene expression. 

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