glycogen synthetase

[′glī·kə·jən ′sin·thə‚tās]

(biochemistry)

An enzyme that catalyzes the synthesis of the amylose chain of glycogen.

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This occurs in part as a result of poor movement of GLUT4 glucose transporters to the cell membrane, leading to insulin resistance, along with low muscle glycogen synthetase activity, leading to poor glycogen storage, in a counter-regulatory hormonal environment that enhances muscle protein degradation due to glucoeneogenesis.

Carbohydrate loading in the preoperative setting

Glycogen synthetase from rat liver: (glucose) n + (UDPG)->(Glucose)n + l +UDP.

Effect of tangeretin, a polymethoxylated flavone on glucose metabolism in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats

The control of glycogen metabolism by the enzymes phosphorylase and glycogen synthetase is effected in animal tissues mainly through the inter conversions of the active and inactive forms of these enzymes.

Effect of Deltamethrin on glycogen phosphorylase and glucose-6-phosphatase activity in freshwater fish Labeo rohita

Fructose 1,6-diphosphate, phosphofructokinase, glycogen synthetase, phosphorylase, and proteinkinase from swine kidney.

Carbohydrate mobilization during germination of post-diapausing gemmules of the freshwater sponge Eunapius fragilis

Glycogen synthetase from rat liver: (Glucose)n +(UDPG) [right arrow] or [vector] (Glucose)n + 1 + UDP.

Modulatory effect of green tea extract on hepatic key enzymes of glucose metabolism in streptozotocin and high fat diet induced diabetic rats

2002) or oxidative stress by diabetes may inactivate the glycogen synthetase.

Insulin mimetic impact of Catechin isolated from Cassia fistula on the glucose oxidation and molecular mechanisms of glucose uptake on Streptozotocin-induced diabetic Wistar rats

In the diabetic rats, high glucose levels and a decrease in hepatic glycogen contents could be attributed to less availability of the active form of the enzyme glycogen synthetase (Bollen and Stalmans 1984).