Pathway
The pathway of glycogenolysis is as follows:
- glycogen phosphorylase cleaves glycogen of 1 glucose molecule that is phosphorylated to produce glucose-1-phosphate
- phosphoglucomutase converts glucose-1-phosphate into glucose-6-phosphate
- glucose-6-phosphate:
- able to enter the glycolytic or pentose phosphate pathways, or
- only in the liver, and to a minor extent the kidneys, there exists the enzyme glucose-6-phosphatase which is capable of converting glucose-6-phosphate into glucose; glucose is then free to diffuse into the bloodstream
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