GCN2 regulates the CCAAT enhancer binding protein beta and hepatic gluconeogenesis

American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 305, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Xu, Xu ^a   Hu, Jingjie ^a   Mcgrath, Barbara C ^a   Cavener, Douglas R ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

General control nondepressible 2; Gluconeogenesis; Glucose homeostasis

Indexed keywords

CCAAT ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN BETA; GENERAL CONTROL NONDEPRESSIBLE 2 PROTEIN; INSULIN; MALIC ACID; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; OXALOACETIC ACID; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE CARBOXYKINASE (GTP); PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PYRUVIC ACID; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLUCONEOGENESIS; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; LIVER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

GENERAL CONTROL NONDEPRESSIBLE-2; GLUCONEOGENESIS; GLUCOSE HOMEOSTASIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CCAAT-ENHANCER-BINDING PROTEIN-BETA; CELLS, CULTURED; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; GLUCONEOGENESIS; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LIVER; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE CARBOXYKINASE (GTP); PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RNA, MESSENGER; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84885650694     PISSN: 01931849     EISSN: 15221555     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.00063.2013     Document Type: Article

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