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Galactose catabolism occurs through the Leloir pathway. The Argentine Luis Federico Leloir, who received the 1970 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, discovered galactose catabolism. Galactokinase converts galactose into galactose 1-phosphate, which subsequently becomes glucose 1-phosphate, which can either be stored as glycogen or enter glycolysis by being converted into glucose 6-phosphate.
