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Decades ago it was believed that a cascade of enzymes controls the activity of HMG-CoA reductase: an HMG-CoA reductase kinase was thought to inactivate the enzyme, and the kinase in turn was held to be activated via phosphorylation by HMG-CoA reductase kinase kinase.
Introduction. Glycogen phosphorylase catalyzes the hydrolysis of glycogen to generate glucose-1-phosphate and shortened glycogen molecule and is considered the rate limiting step in the degradation of glycogen.ctivation of phosphorylase kinase is due to increased concentrations of Ca 2+ or by the phosphorylation by protein kinase A which is cAMP dependent. The activated kinase in turn activates the glycogen phosphorylase enzyme by phosphorylating the Ser-14 residue.