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Lookup NU author(s): Emeritus Professor Steve Yeaman, Dr Jane Renwick, Dr Sylvie Bonavaud, Darren Poinasamy, Dr Laura Rush, Dr Reza Halse
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Glucose uptake into muscle and its subsequent storage as glycogen is a crucial factor in energy homeostasis in skeletal muscle. This process is stimulated acutely by insulin and is impaired in both insulin-resistant states and in type 2 diabetes mellitus. A signalling pathway involving protein kinase B and glycogen synthase kinase 3 seems certain to have a key role in stimulating glycogen synthesis but other signalling pathways also contribute, including a rapamycin-sensitive pathway stimulated by amino acids. Although glycogen synthesis is one of the classical insulin-regulated pathways, it is also regulated in an insulin-independent manner; for example glycogen synthesis in muscle is stimulated significantly after strenuous exercise, with much of this stimulation being independent of the involvement of insulin. Evidence suggests that glucose and the glycogen content of the muscle have a key role in this stimulation but the molecular mechanism has vet to be fully explained.
Author(s): Yeaman SJ, Armstrong JL, Bonavaud SM, Poinasamy D, Pickersgill L, Halse R
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Biochemical Society Transactions
Year: 2001
Volume: 29
Issue: part 4
Pages: 537-541
ISSN (print): 0300-5127
ISSN (electronic): 1470-8752
Publisher: Portland Press Ltd.
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1042/BST0290537
DOI: 10.1042/BST0290537
PubMed id: 11498024
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