5‐Aminoimidazole‐4‐carboxamide ribonucleoside: a specific method for activating AMP‐activated protein kinase in intact cells?

JM Corton, JG Gillespie, SA Hawley… - European journal of …, 1995 - Wiley Online Library
The AMP‐activated protein kinase (AMPK) is believed to protect cells against environmental
stress (eg heat shock) by switching off biosynthetic pathways, the key signal being elevation …

Stimulation of rat liver AMP-activated protein kinase by AMP analogues

N Henin, MF Vincent, G Van den Berghe - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta …, 1996 - Elsevier
Stimulation of AMP-activated protein kinase (AMP-PK) by ZMP (5-amino-4-
imidazolecarboxamide ribotide, AICAR), formed by adenosine kinase upon addition of …

Inhibition of fatty acid and cholesterol synthesis by stimulation of AMP‐activated protein kinase

N Henin, MF Vincent, HE Gruber… - The FASEB …, 1995 - Wiley Online Library
AMP‐activated protein kinase is a multisubstrate protein kinase that, in liver, inactivates both
acetyl‐CoA carboxylase, the rate‐limiting enzyme of fatty acid synthesis, and 3‐hydroxy‐3 …

Inhibition of glucocorticoid-induced apoptosis with 5-aminoimidazole-4-carboxamide ribonucleoside, a cell-permeable activator of AMP-activated protein kinase

C Stefanelli, F Bonavita, F Flamigni, C Pignatti… - Biochemical and …, 1998 - Elsevier
The AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) is related to a growing family of protein kinases
that are believed to protect cells against environmental and nutritional stress. In the present …

Dissecting the role of 5′-AMP for allosteric stimulation, activation, and deactivation of AMP-activated protein kinase

M Suter, U Riek, R Tuerk, U Schlattner… - Journal of Biological …, 2006 - ASBMB
AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) is a heterotrimeric protein kinase that is crucial for
cellular energy homeostasis of eukaryotic cells and organisms. Here we report on the …

Inhibition of lipolysis and lipogenesis in isolated rat adipocytes with AICAR, a cell-permeable activator of AMP-activated protein kinase

JE Sullivan, KJ Brocklehurst, AE Marley, F Carey… - FEBS letters, 1994 - Elsevier
In vivo, hormone-sensitive lipase (HSL) is known to be phosphorylated on two sites termed
the regulatory and basal sites. However, the intracellular role of the basal site or the identity …

Beyond AICA riboside: in search of new specific AMP‐activated protein kinase activators

B Guigas, K Sakamoto, N Taleux, SM Reyna… - IUBMB …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Aminoimidazole‐4‐carboxamide‐1‐β‐d‐ribofuranoside (AICA riboside) has been
extensively used in vitro and in vivo to activate the AMP‐activated protein kinase (AMPK), a …

[HTML][HTML] Protein kinase inhibitors block the stimulation of the AMP-activated protein kinase by 5-amino-4-imidazolecarboxamide riboside

LGD Fryer, A Parbu-Patel, D Carling - FEBS letters, 2002 - Elsevier
The AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) is the central component of a protein kinase
cascade that plays a major role in energy sensing. AMPK is activated pharmacologically by …

Characterization of the role of AMP-activated protein kinase in the regulation of glucose-activated gene expression using constitutively active and dominant negative …

A Woods, D Azzout-Marniche, M Foretz… - … and cellular biology, 2000 - Taylor & Francis
In the liver, glucose induces the expression of a number of genes involved in glucose and
lipid metabolism, eg, those encoding L-type pyruvate kinase and fatty acid synthase. Recent …

Role of the AMP-activated protein kinase in the cellular stress response

JM Corton, JG Gillespie, DG Hardie - Current biology, 1994 - cell.com
Background: AMP-activated protein kinase is the central component of a protein kinase
cascade that phosphorylates and inactivates key regulatory enzymes of several biosynthetic …