Bill Whelan's impact on my life and career.
In this tribute to Bill Whelan on his 90th birthday, I recount the huge impact that Bill has had on my life and career, and briefly recall the contributions that my laboratory made to the understanding of glycogenin in the late 1980s. In particular, the demonstration that glycogenin and glycogen synthase form a complex, and that glycogenin is a glucosyl transferase that autoglucosylates itself at tyrosine 194.
MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 5EH, UK. Electronic address: p.cohen@dundee.ac.uk.
Philip
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Cohen
D005964:Glucosyltransferases / Q000378:metabolism*; D006006:Glycogen Synthase / Q000378:metabolism*; D006023:Glycoproteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D017056:Medical Laboratory Personnel; D012108:Research Personnel
D006023:Glycoproteins; C051887:glycogenin; D005964:Glucosyltransferases; D006006:Glycogen Synthase
GSK3; Glucosyl transferase; Glycogen synthase; Glycogenin; Insulin; UDP glucose