MTOR and obesity due to melanocortin 4 receptor deficiency: Major downstream pathways of AMPK, such as the sterol regulatory element-binding transcription factor 1 (SREBF1, also known as SREBP1) pathway related to lipogenesis and the mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway, whose activation contributes to obesity, were downregulated by GTE (Figure 3b).