A glycogen branching enzyme is an enzyme that takes part in converting glucose to glycogen. It adds branches to the growing glycogen molecule.
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“The moose will, perhaps, one day become extinct; but how naturally then, when it exists only as a fossil relic, and unseen as that, may the poet or sculptor invent a fabulous animal with similar branching and leafy horns ... to be the inhabitant of such a forest as this!”
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