The red pepper’s spicy ingredient capsaicin activates AMPK in HepG2 cells through CaMKKβ

• Alicia Bort,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Software

  Affiliation Department of Systems Biology, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Alcala, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain

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• Belén G. Sánchez,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Systems Biology, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Alcala, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain

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• Elena Spínola,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation University Institute of Biomedical and Health Research (IUIBS), Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Physiology, Genetics and Immunology, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, Spain

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• Pedro A. Mateos-Gómez,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Systems Biology, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Alcala, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain

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• Nieves Rodríguez-Henche,

  Roles Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Systems Biology, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Alcala, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain

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• Inés Díaz-Laviada

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: ines.diazlaviada@uah.es

  Affiliations Department of Systems Biology, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Alcala, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain, Chemical Research Institute “Andrés M. del Río” (IQAR), University of Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9704-4373

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