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. 2024 Jan 18;130(6):908–924. doi: 10.1038/s41416-023-02522-5

Fig. 5. Lung metastases use OXPHOS as bioenergetic fuel.

Fig. 5

a, b Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA) revealed overrepresented pathways enriched in bulk lung mets (a) and in M-cluster (cluster 2) (b) indicating a clear predilection for OXPHOS over glycolysis in cluster 2. c, d PyMT1/GPx2 KD primary tumour and lung mets primary tumour cells were assayed for OCR and ECAR; normalised OCR data comparing both groups were derived for each of the mitochondrial respiration steps after 1 μM oligomycin, 1 μM FCCP, and 0.5 μM rotenone/antimycin treatment; normalised ECAR values were derived after sequential treatment with 20 mM glucose, 1 μM oligomycin, and 50 mM 2-DG; ****p < 0.0001. e, f Co-staining for GLUT1 (blue), pAMPK (green), VIM (red), and E-CAD (purple) shows individual and overlay staining on GPx2 KD primary tumour (n = 8) and paired lung mets (n = 4) from 4 mice. Representative images are shown.