Castanospermine interferes with this substance's storage in livestock, and uridine-5-triphosphate provides the energy for its formation. Pompe's disease is a genetic impairment in ability to use this molecule. After being debranched, its monomers may be used to produce NADPH
Castanospermine interferes with this substance's storage in livestock, and uridine-5-triphosphate provides the energy for its formation. Pompe's disease is a genetic impairment in ability to use this molecule. After being debranched, its monomers may be used to produce NADPH in the pentose phosphate pathway. Depletion of the body's supplies of this chemical is responsible for the wall that marathon runners hit, its breakdown is stimulated by glucagon, and its branched structure makes it more immediately usable than amylose. For 10 points, what polysaccharide performs an energy-storage function analogous to starch in animals?
Castanospermine interferes with this substance's storage in livestock, and uridine-5-triphosphate provides the energy for its formation.
{glycogen}