The insulin-resistant FL62891 and HHL5 cells were seeded at a density of 2×105 cells/mL in 6-well plates. The plasmid of Sirt1 was used for Sirt1 overexpression. Then, the overexpression plasmid of Sirt1 (pcDNA-Sirt1, 500ng/µl, GenePharma, Shanghai, China) and negative control (pcDNA-NC, GenePharma) were incubated in Opti-MEM (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, USA) using LipofectamineTM 2000 (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, USA) according to the manufacturer’s protocol. The inhibitor NT157 of IRS1 (3 μM, Beijing Bio Lebo Technology Co., Ltd, Beijing, China) was added in FL62891 and HHL5 cells.15 (link)