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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Feb 10.
Published in final edited form as: Genes Dis. 2014 Jul 2;1(1):64–74. doi: 10.1016/j.gendis.2014.06.002

Figure 2.

Figure 2

AMPK regulates protein translation through its effects on mTOR and pre-rRNA synthesis. The activation of AMPK suppresses mTOR activity, thus interfering with translation initiation. AMPK also phosphorylates TIF-IA to prevent the assembly of pre-rRNA transcription initiation complex, thus prevent the synthesis of ribosome which is required for protein translation.