Fig. 8

Western blot analysis: Downregulation of SNW1 inhibits the IRS1 while promote GLUT4 expression: Expression of GLUT4 was found to be upregulated while that of IRS1 downregulated when SNW1 was knock-down with SiRNA. Thus, SNW1 is inhibiting the glucose uptake by downregulating the expression of glucose transporter like GLUT4 while up-regulating the expression of IRS1.