Phenformin HCl

Catalog No.S2542 Batch:S254201

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Technical Data

Formula

C10H15N5.HCl

Molecular Weight 241.72 CAS No. 834-28-6
Solubility (25°C)* In vitro DMSO 48 mg/mL (198.57 mM)
Water 48 mg/mL (198.57 mM)
Ethanol 12 mg/mL (49.64 mM)
* <1 mg/ml means slightly soluble or insoluble.
* Please note that Selleck tests the solubility of all compounds in-house, and the actual solubility may differ slightly from published values. This is normal and is due to slight batch-to-batch variations.
* Room temperature shipping (Stability testing shows this product can be shipped without any cooling measures.)

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Biological Activity

Description Phenformin HCl is a hydrochloride salt of phenformin that is an anti-diabetic drug from the biguanide class. It activates AMPK, increasing activity and phosphorylation.
Targets
AMPK [1]
(Cell-free assay)
In vitro Phenformin stimulates the phosphorylation and activation of AMPKalpha1 and AMPKalpha2 without altering LKB1 activity. [1] Phenformin increases AMPK activity and phosphorylation in the isolated heart, the increase in AMPK activity is always preceded by and correlated with increased cytosolic [AMP]. [2] Phenformin is a 50-fold more potent inhibitor of mitochondrial complex I than metformin. Phenformin robustly induces apoptosis in LKB1 deficient NSCLC cell lines. Phenformin at 2 mM similarly induces AMPK signaling as shown by increased P-AMPK and P-Raptor levels. Phenformin induces higher levels of cellular stress, triggering induction of P-Ser51 eIF2α and its downstream target CHOP, and markers of apoptosis at later times. Phenformin induces a significant increase in survival and therapeutic response in KLluc mice following long-term treatment. [3] Phenformin and AICAR increases AMPK activity in H441 cells in a dose-dependent fashion, stimulating the kinase maximally at 5-10 mm and 2 mm, respectively. Phenformin significantly decreases basal ion transport (measured as short circuit current) across H441 monolayers by approximately 50% compared with that of controls. Phenformin and AICAR significantly reduce amiloride-sensitive transepithelial Na+ transport compared with controls. Phenformin and AICAR suppress amiloride-sensitive Na+ transport across H441 cells via a pathway that includes activation of AMPK and inhibition of both apical Na+ entry through ENaC and basolateral Na+ extrusion via the Na+,K+-ATPase. [4] Phenformin-treated rats reveals a tendency towards a decrease in blood insulin level (radioimmunoassay). [5]
In vivo Phenformin also increases levels of P-eIF2α and its target BiP/Grp78 in normal lung as well as in lung tumors of mice. [3]

Protocol (from reference)

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Data from [Data independently produced by , , J Biol Chem, 2017, 292(7):2830-2841]

Data from [Data independently produced by , , Biochem Biophys Res Commun, 2016, 470(2):453-459]

Selleck's Phenformin HCl has been cited by 9 publications

Quiescence enables unrestricted cell fate in naive embryonic stem cells [ Nat Commun, 2024, 15(1):1721] PubMed: 38409226
Identification of a novel m6A-related lncRNAs signature and immunotherapeutic drug sensitivity in pancreatic adenocarcinoma [ BMC Cancer, 2024, 24(1):116] PubMed: 38262966
Screening Health-Promoting Compounds for Their Capacity to Induce the Activity of FOXO3 [ J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci, 2022, 77-8:1485-1493] PubMed: 34508571
Dietary Intake Regulates the Circulating Inflammatory Monocyte Pool [ cell, 2019, 178(5):1102-1114] PubMed: 31442403
Liquid biopsy-based single-cell metabolic phenotyping of lung cancer patients for informative diagnostics. [ Nat Commun, 2019, 10(1):3856] PubMed: 31451693
SPARC Inhibits Metabolic Plasticity in Ovarian Cancer [ Cancers (Basel), 2018, 10(10)E385] PubMed: 30332737
[ Oncotarget, 2017, ] PubMed: 28938614
Serine/Threonine Kinase Unc-51-like Kinase-1 (Ulk1) Phosphorylates the Co-chaperone Cell Division Cycle Protein 37 (Cdc37) and Thereby Disrupts the Stability of Cdc37 Client Proteins. [Li R, et al. J Biol Chem, 2017, 292(7):2830-2841] PubMed: 28073914
The epigenetic regulation of HIF-1α by SIRT1 in MPP(+) treated SH-SY5Y cells. [Dong SY, et al. Biochem Biophys Res Commun, 2016, 470(2):453-9] PubMed: 26768367

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