Glycogen, Gluconeogenesis Flashcards
how can glucose be regenerated to maintain homeostasis
1) from Glycogen breakdown
2) from Gluconeogenesis
where does Glycogenolysis occur?
what does it go from and what is the end product
in liver and skeletal muscle
-catabolic pathways from glycogen to glucose-6-phosphate
gluconeogenesis occurs in what organ(s) and when? why?
in the liver
between meals to keep brain (erythrocytes?) supplied with glucose
what are 4 key features of gluconeogenesis
a) cannot make net glucose from acetyl-CoA
b) oxaloacetate is the starting material
c) carbon source is amino acid arising from protein
degradation
d) feed in via TCA cycle (e.g. α-ketoglutarate,
succinate, or pyruvate)
what is the first step of glycogenolysis?
what enzyme is used?
what end of glycogen is reacted?
Removal of a terminal glucose residue from the nonreducing end of a glycogen chain by glycogen dephosphorylase:
what kind of process is catalyzed by glycogen phosphorylase? when does it stop?
Primary rxn is cleavage of α1,4 glycosidic bond between 2 glucose
residues, using Pi instead of water (phosphorolysis); glucose is
cleaved from non-reducing end one unit at a time to yield
glucose-1-P and a chain shortened by 1 unit
-repetitive process
-enzyme removes
successive glucose
residues until it
reaches the 4th
glucose from the
branchpoint
3 steps of glycogen breakdown
1) Glycogen phosphorylase can go up to 4 units from α1-6 branch pt
2) Debranching enzyme then transfers 3 glucose units to chain end
and single glu is hydrolyzed to free glu by same enzyme
3) Phosphoglucomutase now converts G-1-P to G-1,6-P to G-6-P
how does phosphoglucomutase work
serine residue of enzyme phosphorylates C6 of glucose 1 phosphate to make glucose 1, 6 bisphosphate
serine phosphate replaced with OH temporarily
and serine then removes phosphate from C1 of transient glucose 1, 6 bisphosphate, yielding G-6-P
what happens to G-6-P made from gluconeogensis:
in the muscles?
in the liver? Give details for this one.
What transporter does glucose use to leave the cell and when does this happen?
in muscles: G6P can enter glycolysis
in liver: G-6-P formed in cytosol is transported into ER by G6P transporter (T1) and hydrolyzed by glucose-6-phosphatase; resulting Pi and glucose carried back to cytosol by other transporters (Pi transporter AKA T3 and glucose transporter AKA T2, respectively)
-Glucose leaves hepatocyte via GLUT2 transporter, released into
blood when level drops (between meals)
what general rxn makes a sugar nucleotide during the glycogen synthesis pathway?
what is the enzyme used?
describe the reaction.
sugar phosphate + NTP –> NDP sugar + PPi
enzyme: sugar pyrophosphorylase
-Formation of sugar nucleotide involves:
a) condensation rxn between NTP and sugar phosphate
-negatively charged oxygen on sugar phosphate serves as a
nucleophile, attacking α-phosphate of NTP and displacing PPi
-rxn is pulled in forward direction by hydrolysis of PPi
pyrophosphate hydrolysis drives rxn forward
PPi —> 2Pi
What makes up UDP-Glucose
Uridine (base), ribose, diphosphates and a D-Glucosyl group
glycogen synthase is affected in what disease
Type 0 Glycogen storage disease in liver
what is type of disease is caused by a defect in G-6-phosphatase,
Type Ia (Von Gierke’s) Glycogen storage disease in liver
what disease is caused by defect in Microsomal Pi transporter
Type Ic Glycogen storage disease in liver
What type of disease is caused by defect in microsomal glucose-6-phosphate translocase
Type Ib Glycogen storage disease in liver
What type of disease is caused by defect in Lysosomal Glucosidase
Type II (pompe’s) in skeletal and cardiac muscle
What type of disease is caused by defect in debranching enzyme
Type IIIa (Cori’s or Forbes’s) in liver, skeletal and cardiac muscle
What type of disease is caused by defect in Liver debranching enzyme (muscle enzyme is normal)
Type IIIb in liver
What type of disease is caused by defect in Branching enzyme
Type IV (Andersen’s) in liver and skeletal muscle
What type of disease is caused by defect in muscle phosphorylase
Type V (McArdle’s) in skeletal muscle
What type of disease is caused by defect in liver phosphorylase
Type VI (Hers’s) in liver
What type of disease is caused by defect in Muscle PFK-1
Type VII (Tarui’s) in muscle and erythrocytes
What type of disease is caused by defect in Phosphorylase Kinase
Type VIb, VIII, or IX in liver, leukocytes and muscle
What type of disease is caused by defect in Glucose transporter (GLUT 2)
Type XI (Fanconi-Bickel) in the liver
what happens during glycogenesis after UDP-Glucose is formed?
1) Glycogen synthesis: chain is elongated by glycogen synthase, which
transfers glu residue of UDP-glucose to non-reducing end of a
glycogen branch to make a new α1 4 linkage
2) Branch synthesis: glycogen-branching enzyme forms new branch pt
3) Further glu residues may be added to new branch by glyc.synthase
What is Glycogenin?
What is its role in glycogen?
What is the resulting structure of glycogen?
1) Glycogenin: primer by which new chains are assembled (preformed
a1 4 polyglucose chain or branch with at least 8 glu residues)
a) transfer of glu from UDP-glucose to OH-group of glycogenin
b) nascent chain extended by sequential addition of 7 more glucose
residues from UDP-glucose (a and b catalyzed by glycogenin)
2) Glycogen synthase further extends glycogen chain
3) Structure of glycogen particle: central glycogenin molecule, glycogen
chains (12-14 residues) extend in tiers (~55,000 glu residues)
What catalytic activity does Glycogenin have?
- glucotransferase activity: tranfers glucose from UDP-Glucose to hydroxyl oxygen on tyrosine residue
- releases UDP
- glucotransferase activity: tranfers glucose from UDP-Glucose to hydroxyl oxygen on tyrosine residue
- Chain extending activityadds glucose to non-reducing end of glycogen
- releases UDP
- Chain extending activityadds glucose to non-reducing end of glycogen
how many residues does each glycogen chain have?
12-14 glucose residues
how many residues of glucose in glycogen?
about 55,000 residues
how many glucose residues are added to glycogenin?
at least 8.
Why is gluconeogenesis important? what tissues depend on it?
Glucose from blood: sole or major fuel source for human brain and nervous system, erythrocytes, testes, renal medulla (brain requires ~120g glucose /day - more than half of glycogen stored in muscle and liver
define gluconeogenesis
Gluconeogenesis:”formation
of new sugar”; synthesis
of glucose from noncarbohydrate
precursors
What kind of substrates does gluconeogenesis use to make new glucose?
When does this occur?
-Converts pyruvate and
related 3C and 4C
compunds to glucose
when supply of glucose from
stored glycogen is
insufficient (i.e. between
meals, exercise,etc)
Where does gluconeogenesis take place primarily?
takes place mainly in the
liver & kidney in mammals
what are the some general precursors for gluconeogenesis?
- lactate, pyruvate, glucogenic AA’s (all these enter gluconeogensis through the TCA)
- triacylglycerols, glycerol
- Plants can utilize CO2 fixation to make 3-phosphoglycerate that enters gluconeogenesis
what can glucose 6 phosphate make? (anabolic products)
Blood glucose, glycogen, glycoproteins, Disaccharides, monosaccharides, other monosaccharides, starch, sucrose
how many reactions in glycolysis are reversible?
7/10
what makes the 3 glycolysis reactions irreversible?
what are these reactions?
-they have large negative delta G
-glucose to G-6P by hexokinase
-F6P to F16P by PFK1
-PEP to pyruvate by pyruvate
kinase
what rxns are used in gluconeogenesis to bypass irreversible rxns in glycolysis?
Are they reversible?
- Pyruvate to OAA (pyruvate carboxylase)
- Uses ATP
- biotin cofactor used
- OAA to PEP (PEP carboxykinase)
- Uses GTP
- F1,6BP to F6P ( Fructose-1,6-Bisphophatase)
- Uses H2O and releases Pi
- G -6-phosphate to glucose (Glucose 6 Phosphatase)
- Uses H2O and releases Pi
-”bypass” rxns are sufficiently
exergonic to be effectively
irreversible in direction of
glucose synthesis
where do gluconeogesis and glycolysis occur?
What does this lack of compartmentalization imply?
Both pathways occur in cytosol,
That the opposing pathways require reciprocal and
coordinated regulation
what energy molecules and reducing equivalents are used in gluconeogenesis?
Evaluate this cost.
4 ATP, 2 GTP, 2 NADH
Energetically expensive
What is pyruvate reacted with during gluconeogenesis?
In mitochondria, pyruvate is converted to
OAA by pyruvate carboxyase (biotin-requiring; consumes ATP)
OAA in the cytosol makes what in gluconeogenesis?
OAA is converted to PEP by PEP carboxykinase; CO2 added in previous reaction is lost here as CO2 ; GTP acts as phosphoryl group donor; irreversible rxn
what is the role of biotin in pyruvate carboxylase?
Cofactor Biotin - flexible arms carry rxn
intermediates CO2 between enzyme active sites
what path predominates when Lactate is starting substrate in gluconeogenesis?
give the path as is it shown in the diagram. Include cofactors
1) it is converted to pyruvate in the cytosol via LActate dehydrogenase (makes NADH + H+)
2) Pyruvate enters mitochondria and reacts with ATP via pyruvate carboxylase making OAA (biotin cofactor)
3) OAA reacts with GTP and is decarboxylated by mitochondrial PEP carboxykinase releasing CO2
4) PEP leaves mitochondria and continues in glycolysis
What path predominates when pyruvate in cytosol is starting substrate in glconeogensis (not from lactate take)
1) Pyruvate enters mitochondria and is carboxylated to OAA by pyruvate carboxylase (CO2 added)
2) OAA makes Malate via Mitochondrial malate dehydrogenase (MAkes NAD+)
3) malate leaves mitochondria and is made into OAA by cytosolic malate dehydrogenase (makes NADH)
4) OAA makes PEP via cytosolic PEP carboxykinase (releases CO2)
why does the starting substrate lead to a predominant pathway for that substrate in gluconeogenesis?
Path that predominates depend on the glucogenic precursor (lactate or pyruvate); when lactate is precursor, right path predominates because cytosolic NADH is generated in LDH rxn and does not have to be shuttled out of mitochondria
what AA’s can be glucogenic?
Which are primarily ketogenic?
- ALL AA’s can be glucogenic acoording to Dr. Bazaar
- 2 are primarily ketogenic (leucine and lysine) but all can enter gluconeogenesis