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AMPK: a key sensor of fuel and energy status in skeletal muscle.
Physiology (Bethesda, Md.) - 1 Feb 2006
Hardie D Grahame, Sakamoto Kei
Abstract excerpt
Contraction induces marked metabolic changes in muscle, and the AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) is a good candidate to explain these effects. Recent work using a muscle-specific knockout of the upstream kinase, LKB1, has confirmed that the LKB1-->AMPK cascade is the signaling pathway responsible for many of these effects.
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