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Fig. 14

From: The relative importance of kinetic mechanisms and variable enzyme abundances for the regulation of hepatic glucose metabolism – insights from mathematical modeling

Fig. 14

Diurnal variations of HGP/HGU and glycogen in the diabetic state. (a) Measured diurnal profiles of plasma glucose for diabetic hepatocytes taken from [8] and used as model input. (b, c) Diurnal profiles of insulin and glucagon calculated from the plasma glucose profile in (a) by means of the GHT function (Fig. 2, red curve). (d) Simulated diurnal glucose exchange flux. (e) Simulated diurnal glycogen content in diabetic hepatocytes. The simulation was repeated 50 times with uniformly sampled protein abundances from the observed range for each enzyme (Table 1). Due to conflicting experimental data regarding the amount of glycogen synthase (GS) and glycogen phosphorylase (GP) in diabetic hepatocytes, we set up three different scenarios: increased activity of GS by 70 % and diminished activity of GP by 50 % [29] (top trace – solid line); increased activity of GS by 70 % and decreased activity of GP by 50 % and reduced total glycogen storage capacity to 75 % [57] (bottom trace – dashed line); and decreased GS activity by 50 % and unchanged GP activity [58] (middle trace – dash-dotted line)

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