Peichuan Zhang Answered Jun 11, 2014
Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Hi Shilpi,
Acid hydrolysis of glycogen will yield glucose monomers, which will be converted further into G-6-P by hexokinase in the kit. The glucosyl unit, as expressed in the equation, refers to a glucose monomer. 1 umole of glucosyl unit is roughly 180ug (D-glucose, MW=180.2).