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<strong>Glycogen</strong> Synthesis<br />
Glucose units are activated for transfer by<br />
formation of sugar nucleotides<br />
• What are other examples of "activation"?<br />
– acetyl-CoA, biotin, THF,<br />
• Leloir showed in the 1950s that glycogen<br />
synthesis depends on sugar nucleotides<br />
• UDP-glucose pyrophosphorylase<br />
– a phosphoanhydride exchange<br />
– driven by pyrophosphate hydrolysis