Figure 4.
Effect of IDF-11774 on energy metabolism. (a) Western blot analysis of the expression levels of proteins involved in AMPK activation in the presence or absence of IDF-11774. (b) Model depicting the mode of action of IDF-11774: IDF-11774 suppresses HIF-1α accumulation, thereby inhibiting glucose-dependent energy metabolism and mitochondrial respiration in cancer cells. HIF-1α accumulation was reduced by the enhanced degradation of HIF-1α consequent to increased local oxygen concentrations and the translational attenuation of HIF-1α by mTOR inactivation