AMP-activated protein kinase: the current landscape for drug development

GR Steinberg, D Carling - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2019 - nature.com
Since the discovery of AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) as a central regulator of energy
homeostasis, many exciting insights into its structure, regulation and physiological roles …

Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera)—Current Research on the Health-Promoting Activities: A Narrative Review

P Mikulska, M Malinowska, M Ignacyk, P Szustowski… - Pharmaceutics, 2023 - mdpi.com
In recent years, there has been a significant surge in reports on the health-promoting
benefits of winter cherry (Withania somnifera), also known as Ashwagandha. Its current …

AMPK signalling in health and disease

D Carling - Current opinion in cell biology, 2017 - Elsevier
In eukaryotic cells AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) plays a major role in regulating
cellular energy balance. AMPK responds to changes in intracellular adenine nucleotide …

The upstream pathway of mTOR-mediated autophagy in liver diseases

H Wang, Y Liu, D Wang, Y Xu, R Dong, Y Yang, Q Lv… - Cells, 2019 - mdpi.com
Autophagy, originally found in liver experiments, is a cellular process that degrades
damaged organelle or protein aggregation. This process frees cells from various stress …

Mitochondria-localized AMPK responds to local energetics and contributes to exercise and energetic stress-induced mitophagy

JC Drake, RJ Wilson, RC Laker… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Mitochondria form a complex, interconnected reticulum that is maintained through
coordination among biogenesis, dynamic fission, and fusion and mitophagy, which are …

AMPK-mediated regulation of lipid metabolism by phosphorylation

Q Wang, S Liu, A Zhai, B Zhang… - Biological and …, 2018 - jstage.jst.go.jp
AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) is a metabolic sensor in mammals that is activated
when ATP levels in the cell decrease. AMPK is a heterotrimeric protein that comprises 3 …

The role of AMPK activation for cardioprotection in doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity

KN Timm, DJ Tyler - Cardiovascular drugs and therapy, 2020 - Springer
Doxorubicin is a commonly used chemotherapeutic agent for the treatment of a range of
cancers, but despite its success in improving cancer survival rates, doxorubicin is cardiotoxic …

Genomic deletion of malic enzyme 2 confers collateral lethality in pancreatic cancer

P Dey, J Baddour, F Muller, CC Wu, H Wang, WT Liao… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
The genome of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) frequently contains deletions of
tumour suppressor gene loci, most notably SMAD4, which is homozygously deleted in …

The tumor suppressor LKB1 kinase directly activates AMP-activated kinase and regulates apoptosis in response to energy stress

RJ Shaw, M Kosmatka, N Bardeesy… - Proceedings of the …, 2004 - National Acad Sciences
AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) is a highly conserved sensor of cellular energy status
found in all eukaryotic cells. AMPK is activated by stimuli that increase the cellular AMP/ATP …

LKB1 is a master kinase that activates 13 kinases of the AMPK subfamily, including MARK/PAR‐1

JM Lizcano, O Göransson, R Toth, M Deak… - The EMBO …, 2004 - embopress.org
We recently demonstrated that the LKB1 tumour suppressor kinase, in complex with the
pseudokinase STRAD and the scaffolding protein MO25, phosphorylates and activates AMP …