Activation of AMP-activated protein kinase stimulates proopiomelanocortin gene transcription in AtT20 corticotroph cells

American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 292, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Iwasaki, Yasumasa ^a   Nishiyama, Mitsuru ^a   Taguchi, Takafumi ^a   Kambayashi, Machiko ^a   Asai, Masato ^b   Yoshida, Masanori ^b   Nigawara, Takeshi ^b   Hashimoto, Kozo ^a  

^a KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adenosine 5 monophosphate; Adrenocorticotropin; Energy homeostasis; Pituitary; Starvation

Indexed keywords

HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE KINASE; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VITRO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; AMINOIMIDAZOLE CARBOXAMIDE; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CORTICOTROPHS; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RIBONUCLEOTIDES; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP-1; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 34447547685     PISSN: 01931849     EISSN: 15221555     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.00116.2006     Document Type: Article

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