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Pathway

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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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