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Hexokinase and phosphofructokinase activity and intracellular distribution correlate with aggressiveness and invasiveness of human breast carcinoma

Raquel G. Coelho _, Isadora C. Calaça, Deborah M. Celestrini, Ana Helena P. Correia-Carneiro, Mauricio M. Costa, Patricia Zancan and Mauro Sola-Penna

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Oncotarget. 2015; 6:29375-29387. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.4910

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Abstract

Raquel G. Coelho1,2,5, Isadora C. Calaça1, Deborah M. Celestrini1, Ana Helena P. Correia-Carneiro3, Mauricio M. Costa3, Patricia Zancan4, Mauro Sola-Penna1

1Laboratório de Enzimologia e Controle do Metabolismo (LabECoM), Departamento de Biotecnologia Farmacêutica, Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

2Instituto de Bioquímica Médica Leopoldo De Meis, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

3Hospital Universitário Clementino Fraga Filho, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

4Laboratório de Oncobiologia Molecular (LabOMol), Departamento de Biotecnologia Farmacêutica, Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

5Present address: Laboratório de Fisiologia Endócrina Doris Rosenthal (LFE), Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

Correspondence to:

Mauro Sola-Penna, e-mail: [email protected]

Keywords: glycolysis, prognosis, breast cancer, treatment, diagnosis

Received: May 29, 2015     Accepted: July 27, 2015     Published: August 07, 2015

ABSTRACT

Glycolytic enzymes, such as hexokinase and phosphofructokinase, have been reported to be upregulated in many cancer types. Here, we evaluated these two enzymes in 54 breast cancer samples collected from volunteers subjected to mastectomy, and the results were correlated with the prognosis markers commonly used. We found that both enzymes positively correlate with the major markers for invasiveness and aggressiveness. For invasiveness, the enzymes activities increase in parallel to the tumor size. Moreover, we found augmented activities for both enzymes when the samples were extirpated from patients presenting lymph node involvement or occurrence of metastasis. For aggressiveness, we stained the samples for the estrogen and progesterone receptors, HER-2, p53 and Ki-67. The enzyme activities positively correlated with all markers but Ki-67. Finally, we conclude that these enzymes are good markers for breast cancer prognosis.


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