Can glycogen act like a hormone?
1 Answer
Sep 3, 2014
Glycogen is a storage form of glucose and is not by any definition a hormone.
Perhaps you mean glucagon which, with insulin, regulates glucose levels in the blood.
Glycogen is a ready energy source and stored mostly in the liver as a very large molecule with a protein core.
A core protein of glycogenin is surrounded by branches of glucose units. The entire globular granule may contain around 30,000 glucose units.
