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Glucose starvation results in UDP-glucose deficiency and inactivation of glycogen synthase.
Archives of biochemistry and biophysics - 15 May 2004
Higuita Juan Carlos, Thelestam Monica, Katz Abram
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The effects of glucose starvation on glycogen synthase (GS) activity and protein expression were investigated. Fibroblasts were cultured in medium supplemented with either glucose or pyruvate. Pyruvate-cultured cells exhibited UDP-glucose contents that amounted to approximately 10% of those in cells cultured with glucose. GS activity, protein and mRNA amounts in pyruvate-cultured cells were decreased to...
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