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  • Title: Glycogen metabolizing enzymes during starvation and feeding of Ascaris suum maintained in a perfusion chamber.
    Author: Donahue MJ, Yacoub NJ, Kaeini MR, Masaracchia RA, Harris BG.
    Journal: J Parasitol; 1981 Aug; 67(4):505-10. PubMed ID: 6790695.
    Abstract:
    The glycogen content of muscle was correlated with the activity of glycogen synthase and glycogen phosphorylase from the parasitic roundworm Ascaris suum maintained in vitro. Adult female worms were maintained in the laboratory in a perfusion system during periods of starvation and feeding. During starvation, the levels of glucogen decreased at a rate of 0.1 to 0.2 mumoles/min/g wet weight of muscle-cuticle. During this time, 95% of the glycogen synthase (E.C. 2.4.1.11) was in the active D-form, and 48% of the phosphorylase (E.C. 2.4.1.1) was in the active a-form. Upon feeding, the rate of incorporation of glycosyl residues into glycogen proceeded at a rate of 0.75 to 1.0 mumoles/min/g muscle-cuticle. Glycogen synthase was 22% in the active I-form and phosphorylase a-levels remained virtually unchanged at 41% as compared with the starved worm. Total levels of both enzymes remained constant over the starvation-feeding period with 3.9 units/g phosphorylase and 0.4 units/g glycogen synthase. The apparent Km value for the substrate UDPG for glycogen synthase was 0.22 +/- 0.02 mM. For glycogen phosphorylase the Km value for G-1-P was 1.76 +/- 0.38 mM.
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