Myophosphorylase
Muscle enzyme involved in glycogen breakdown / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Myophosphorylase or glycogen phosphorylase, muscle associated (PYGM) is the muscle isoform of the enzyme glycogen phosphorylase and is encoded by the PYGM gene. This enzyme helps break down glycogen (a form of stored carbohydrate) into glucose-1-phosphate (not glucose), so it can be used within the muscle cell. Mutations in this gene are associated with McArdle disease (GSD-V, myophosphorylase deficiency), a glycogen storage disease of muscle.[2]
phosphorylase, glycogen; muscle (McArdle disease, glycogen storage disease type V) | |||||||
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Identifiers | |||||||
Symbol | PYGM | ||||||
NCBI gene | 5837 | ||||||
HGNC | 9726 | ||||||
OMIM | 608455 | ||||||
RefSeq | NM_005609 | ||||||
UniProt | P11217 | ||||||
Other data | |||||||
EC number | 2.4.1.1 | ||||||
Locus | Chr. 11 q12-q13.2 | ||||||
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Myophosphorylase comes in two forms: form 'a' is phosphorylated by phosphorylase kinase, form 'b' is not phosphorylated. Form 'a' is de-phosphorylated into form 'b' by the enzyme phosphoprotein phosphatase, which is activated by elevated insulin.
Both forms 'a' and 'b' of myophosphorylase have two conformational states: active (R or relaxed) and inactive (T or tense). When either form 'a' or 'b' are in the active state, then the enzyme converts glycogen into glucose-1-phosphate.
Myophosphorylase-b is allosterically activated by elevated AMP within the cell, and allosterically inactivated by elevated ATP and/or glucose-6-phosphate. Myophosphorylase-a is active, unless allosterically inactivated by elevated glucose within the cell. In this way, myophosphorylase-a is the more active of the two forms as it will continue to convert glycogen into glucose-1-phosphate even with high levels of glycogen-6-phosphate and ATP. (See Glycogen phosphorylase§Regulation).