Tags: Enzyme.

“Glycogen branching enzyme” is an enzyme that adds branches to the growing glycogen molecule during the synthesis of glycogen a storage form of glucose. More specifically during glycogen synthesis a glucose 1-phosphate molecule reacts with uridine triphosphate (UTP) to become UDP-glucose an activated form of glucose.

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