New role for master regulator in cell metabolism, response to stress: Clinical implications for obesity, diabetes and cancer research
Thursday, July 15, 2010 - 15:21
in Biology & Nature
Biologists have been studying how AMPK works for several decades and know that once it is activated, AMPK turns on a large number of genes by passing the "make more energy" message through numerous signaling cascades in the cell. What was not known, until now, was that AMPK also works via an epigenetic mechanism to slow down or stop cell growth.