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. 2020 Apr 14;11:1769. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-15636-8

Fig. 9. Glycogen metabolism regulates macrophages.

Fig. 9

In inflammatory macrophages, glycogen is synthesized and then channeled through glycogenolysis to generate G6P and further through the pentose phosphate pathway to yield abundant NADPH, ensuring high levels of reduced glutathione for inflammatory macrophage survival. Glycogen metabolism also increases UDPG levels and the receptor P2Y14 in macrophages. The UDPG/P2Y14 signaling pathway not only upregulates the expression of STAT1 via activating RARβ but also promotes STAT1 phosphorylation by downregulating phosphatase TC45.