FB2025_05 , released December 11, 2025
FB2025_05 , released December 11, 2025
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Term glycogen metabolic process ID (Ontology) GO:0005977 (Gene Ontology)
Definition The chemical reactions and pathways involving glycogen, a polydisperse, highly branched glucan composed of chains of D-glucose residues in alpha-(1->4) glycosidic linkage, joined together by alpha-(1->6) glycosidic linkages.[ ISBN:0198506732 ]
Also Known As "glycogen metabolism"
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Genes (FBgn)  GO_BIOLOGICAL_PROCESS       7
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 glycogen metabolic process (all annotations which use CV term, excluding "NOT" statements)       7
     acts_upstream_of | glycogen metabolic process       2
     involved_in | glycogen metabolic process       5
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polysaccharide metabolic process
 |__glucan metabolic process_________________________
energy derivation by oxidation of organic compounds  |
 |__energy reserve metabolic process_________________|
                                                     glycogen metabolic process  46 rec.
                                                      |__glycogen biosynthetic process 15 rec.
                                                      |   |__glycogen biosynthetic process via ADP-glucose
                                                      |   |__glycogen biosynthetic process via UDP-glucose 4 rec.
                                                      |__glycogen catabolic process 33 rec.
                                                          |__glycogen catabolic process via dextrin
                                                          |__glycogen catabolic process via dextrin and maltose
                                                          |__glycophagy 13 rec.
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Is a energy reserve metabolic process
glucan metabolic process
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Reactome:R-HSA-8982491 "Glycogen metabolism"