title: The regulation of muscle glycogen: the granule and its proteins.
abstract: Despite decades of studying muscle glycogen in many metabolic situations, surprisingly little is known regarding its regulation. Glycogen is a dynamic and vital metabolic fuel that has very limited energetic capacity. Thus its regulation is highly complex and multifaceted. The stores in muscle are not homogeneous and there appear to be various metabolic pools. Each granule is capable of independent regulation and fundamental aspects of the regulation appear to be associated with a complex set of proteins (some are enzymes and others serve scaffolding roles) that associate both with the granule and with each other in a dynamic fashion. The regulation includes altered phosphorylation status and often translocation as well. The understanding of the roles and the regulation of glycogenin, protein phosphatase 1, glycogen targeting proteins, laforin and malin are in their infancy. These various processes appear to be the mechanisms that give the glycogen granule precise, yet dynamic regulation.
authors.affiliation: Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada. terrygra@uoguelph.ca
authors.forename: T E
authors.initials: TE
authors.lastname: Graham
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Yuan
authors.forename: A K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Hill
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Wilson
mesh_terms: D055372:AMP-Activated Protein Kinases / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D003594:Cytoplasmic Granules / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism / Q000648:ultrastructure; D005964:Glucosyltransferases / Q000378:metabolism; D006003:Glycogen / Q000378:metabolism*; D006006:Glycogen Synthase / Q000378:metabolism; D006023:Glycoproteins / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism; D010766:Phosphorylation; D054645:Protein Phosphatase 1 / Q000378:metabolism; D054558:Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases, Non-Receptor / Q000378:metabolism; D044767:Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases
chemical_list: D002352:Carrier Proteins; D006023:Glycoproteins; C051887:glycogenin; D006003:Glycogen; C478960:NHLRC1 protein, human; D044767:Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases; D005964:Glucosyltransferases; D006006:Glycogen Synthase; D055372:AMP-Activated Protein Kinases; D054645:Protein Phosphatase 1; D054558:Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases, Non-Receptor; C114990:EPM2A protein, human