Metformin HCl
Antidiabetic agent; Autophagy modulator. Indirect modulator of mTORC1 complex; mTORC1 pathway members interact with SARS-CoV-2 N and Orf8 proteins. Gordon et al. bioRxiv, Mar 23 2020; https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.22.002386.
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Metformin is a clinically useful antidiabetic agent which lowers plasma glucose levels and improves insulin sensitivity as well as inhibiting the hepatic gluconeogenesis by activation of the AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) pathway (1,2). This agent displays antiproliferative and pro-apoptotic actions in a variety of cancer cell lines (3,4) and induces autophagy via inhibition of the mTOR pathway. It also activates PGC1α and improves mitochondrial dynamics in renal tubular cells (5) and upregulates SIRT1 activity in endothelial cells (6). It is a neuroprotective and lowers α-synuclein phosphorylation in the Parkinson’s disease MPTP mouse model (7).