Journal: Heliyon
Article Title: Naringenin enhances the efficacy of ferroptosis inducers by attenuating aerobic glycolysis by activating the AMPK-PGC1α signalling axis in liver cancer
doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e32288
Figure Lengend Snippet: Naringenin inhibits aerobic glycolysis in liver cancer cells. HepG2 cells were treated with Nar (0.1 mM/0.2 mM) and/or erastin (5 μM)/RSL3 (0.1 μM). (A) The glucose uptake levels of the cell. (B) Cellular lactate production. (C)the intracellular ATP level of the cells. (D) Western blot was utilized to determine the protein expression levels of GLUT1, GLUT4, LDHA, and PDK1 in HepG2 cells. (E) qRT-PCR was utilized to determine the mRNA expression levels of GLUT1, GLUT4, LDHA, and PDK1 in HepG2 cells. *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001, n = 3 per group.
Article Snippet: Specific primary antibodies against GLUT4 (66846-1-Ig), Cyclin D1 (60186-1-Ig), Cyclin E1 (11554-1-AP) were purchased from Proteintech (Wuhan, China); LDHA (YN033) and GLUT1 (YT1928) were purchased from Immunoway (Hunan, China); PGC1α (#2178) was purchased from CST (Massachusetts, USA); β-actin (ab8227), PDK-1 (ab207450), p-AMPKα1/2 (ab133448), AMPKα1/2 (ab207442), CDK6 (ab124821), CDK2 (ab32147) were purchased from Abcam (United Kingdom).
Techniques: Western Blot, Expressing, Quantitative RT-PCR