Prognostic value of monocarboxylate transporter 4 in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

Oncology Reports
Bo ChengJinming Yu

Abstract

Monocarboxylate transporter 4 (MCT4) is a membrane transporter of monocarboxylates that has been reported to play an important role in tumorigenesis and progression in several solid tumor types. The present study aimed to investigate its clinical significance in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). After obtaining and analyzing MCT4 mRNA expression data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database, the prognostic potential of MCT4 was evaluated by IHC analysis. The effect of the knockdown of MCT4 by shRNA was also evaluated using Cell Counting Kit-8 (CCK-8) and clonogenic assays, in order to determine whether MCT4 inhibition affected the proliferation and survival ability of ESCC cells. Flow cytometric analysis was used to evaluate apoptosis. Western blot analysis was performed to detect the expression levels of p-Akt, Bax, Bcl-2, cytoplasmic cytochrome c and cleaved caspase-3. MCT4 expression was associated with T stage (P=0.001), N stage (P=0.020) and formalin‑fixed and paraffin-embedded (TNM) stage (P=0.042). Kaplan-Meier survival analysis indicated that patients in the high-MCT4 group had a lower overall survival (OS) rate (P=0.001) and progression-free survival (PFS) rate (P=0.003). The univariate Cox regression anal...Continue Reading

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