Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Enables glycogen phosphorylase activity. Acts upstream of or within glycogen catabolic process. Predicted to be located in Z disc and sarcoplasmic reticulum. Predicted to be active in cytoplasm. Is expressed in diaphragm; eye; heart and pericardium; skeletal muscle; and tongue. Used to study glycogen storage disease V. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in glycogen storage disease V. Orthologous to human PYGM (glycogen phosphorylase, muscle associated).