This card would really benefit from something like:
but I have yet to find one we can use under licensing agreement.
If we cant find one it’s easy enough for me to make.
Keep in mind that ‘useful to know’ isn’t one of our criteria, as it’s too loose and prone to editorialization.
Lots of things might be considered ‘useful to know’ that are not of demonstrable utility. An easy example of this is imagining users contributing a bunch of ‘useful to know’ factoids of all manner of questionable providence. Would be a nightmare.
That being said, separate from that this is also a testable detail (it’s arguably not super high-yield, but I have seen AAMC questions on glycogen branching) and it is in a primary reference (I didn’t double-check UWorld but I remember it being in Kaplan). This likely qualifies as low(ish)-yield, but it is a quality detail and I think merits inclusion.
In the interests of focal point, I think we might be able to tighten up the phrasing a bit. Technically, 1,4 transferase moves a glucose trisaccharide IIRC, sometimes referred to as ‘oligoglucose’ and a bunch of other essentially similar terms, but that’s almost certainly not a testable detail.
I think we might can say that it moves glucose (or ‘glucose residues’ to be a bit tighter/more pedantic?) and save some real estate. As opposed to ‘small oligosaccharide segment’ which is a touch wordier and less evident in clarity, imo.
In separate, happier, news: FL tomorrow for you?
I would probably prefer to just say glucose trisaccharide because it makes it more clear that several connected glucosyl subunits are being moved rather than that it moves glucose or glucose residues which could maybe be interpreted as glucose molecules are moved individually w/o spending time looking at the new pic I’m going to make. All good if you disagree though. lmk what you think.
Also Im thinking Wednesday
Yeah, I’m okay with that. I think just ‘small oligosaccharide segment’ leaves some clarity on the table.
Between the other options we’re probably splitting hairs, ultimately. I think any, or all, of them can likely suffice. I can sleep at night with any of them, I think.
Great. Updated to glucose trisaccharide.