KROK 1 2013 – Question 57 · KROK (Medicine) · Biological Chemistry
Glycogen polysaccharide is synthesized from the active form of glucose. The immediate donor of glucose residues during the glycogenesis is:
- A. Glucose-1-phosphate
- B. Glucose-3-phosphate
- C. Glucose-6-phosphate
- D. UDP-glucose
- E. ADP-glucose
Hint
Follow the steps from free glucose to the growing chain and ask which compound is the one that glycogen synthase itself takes as its substrate.
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