Table 1. Members of the PRDX family are differentially expressed in a number of different tumour types.

Peroxiredoxin	Up/down regulated	Tissue	References
PRDX-1	Up	Breast, bladder, mesothelioma, lung, ovarian, oesophageal, endometrial and glioblastoma	(Kinnula et al, 2002; Karihtala et al, 2003; Lehtonen et al, 2004; Park et al, 2006; Quan et al, 2006; Kim et al, 2008; Cha et al, 2009; Hoskins et al, 2011; Karihtala et al, 2011; Maxwell et al, 2011; Svendsen et al, 2011; Woolston et al, 2011; Zhang et al, 2011; Zhang et al, 2012)
PRDX-2	Up	Breast, mesothelioma, lung, cervical, ovarian, oesophageal and prostate	(Kinnula et al, 2002; Karihtala et al, 2003; Park et al, 2006; Kim et al, 2009; Pylvas et al, 2010; Zhang et al, 2012)
PRDX-3	Up	Breast, mesothelioma, lung, cervical, prostate and hepatocellular	(Noh et al, 2001; Choi et al, 2002; Kinnula et al, 2002; Karihtala et al, 2003; Lehtonen et al, 2004; Lin et al, 2007; Kim et al, 2009; Chua et al, 2010; Basu et al, 2011; Ummanni et al, 2012)
PRDX-4	Up/down*	Breast, lung, leukaemia*, prostate and oral cavity	(Karihtala et al, 2003; Park et al, 2006; Basu et al, 2011; Chang et al, 2011; Palande et al, 2011)
PRDX-5	Up	Breast, mesothelioma and multiple myeloma	(Kinnula et al, 2002; Karihtala et al, 2003; Ren et al, 2011; Woolston et al, 2011)
PRDX-6	Up	Breast, bladder, mesothelioma, lung, ovarian, oesophageal, thyroid and pancreas	(Kinnula et al, 2002; Park et al, 2006; Quan et al, 2006; Chang et al, 2007; Pylvas et al, 2010; Park et al, 2011; Thongwatchara et al, 2011; Sofiadis et al, 2012; Zhang et al, 2012)