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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jul 22.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Commun. 2014;5:3128. doi: 10.1038/ncomms4128

Table 1. Top 50 metabolic enzymes frequently over-expressed in human tumors.

Score denotes number of data sets (of 51 total) where each gene was significantly over-expressed at a false discovery rate (FDR) of 5%, as in Fig. 1. Rightmost columns indicate membership in pathways, as in Fig 1.

Score Symbol Description Drug target One-carbon Nucleotides Glycolysis Hypoxia Glycosylation
27 MTHFD2 methylene-THF dehydrogenase/cyclohydrolase (mitochondrial) X
26 RRM2 ribonucleotide reductase M2 X X
25 NME1 protein expressed in non-metastatic cells 1 X
23 GMPS guanine monphosphate synthetase X
23 SHMT2 serine hydroxymethyltransferase 2 (mitochondrial) X
22 GGCT gamma-glutamylcyclotransferase
22 UCK2 uridine-cytidine kinase 2 X
22 TYMS thymidylate synthetase X X
22 TK1 thymidine kinase 1, soluble X
21 PLOD3 procollagen-lysine, 2-oxoglutarate 5-dioxygenase 3 X
21 ENO1 enolase 1 (alpha) X
20 PYCR1 pyrroline-5-carboxylate reductase 1
20 DNMT1 DNA (cytosine-5-)-methyltransferase 1
19 FLAD1 flavin adenine dinucleotide synthetase homolog (S. cerevisiae)
19 ALG3 asparagine-linked glycosylation 3 homolog (S. cerevisiae) X
19 TSTA3 tissue specific transplantation antigen P35B X
19 TPI1 triosephosphate isomerase 1 X
19 RPN2 ribophorin II X
19 GPI glucose-6-phosphate isomerase X
18 PAICS AIR carboxylase / SAICAR synthetase X
18 DTYMK deoxythymidylate kinase (thymidylate kinase) X
18 ATIC AICAR formyltransferase/IMP cyclohydrolase X
17 MOGS mannosyl-oligosaccharide glucosidase X
17 PLOD1 procollagen-lysine, 2-oxoglutarate 5-dioxygenase 1 X
17 PAFAH1B3 platelet-activating factor acetylhydrolase 1b, catalytic subunit 3
17 P4HA1 prolyl 4-hydroxylase, alpha polypeptide I X
16 RPN1 ribophorin I X
16 PKM2 pyruvate kinase, muscle X
16 LDHA lactate dehydrogenase A X
16 HMBS hydroxymethylbilane synthase
16 ALDOA aldolase A, fructose-bisphosphate X
15 SRM spermidine synthase
15 GAPDH glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase X
15 DHFR dihydrofolate reductase X X
15 CTPS1 CTP synthase 1 X
15 CAD carbamoyl-P synthetase 2/aspartate transcarbamylase/dihydroorotase X
15 ACLY ATP citrate lyase
14 ALG8 asparagine-linked glycosylation 8 (S. cerevisiae) X
14 CHPF2 chondroitin polymerizing factor 2
14 UMPS uridine monophosphate synthetase X
14 SRD5A1 steroid-5-alpha-reductase, alpha polypeptide 1
14 SLC7A1 solute carrier family 7 (y+ system), member 1
14 PMM2 phosphomannomutase 2 X
14 INPPL1 inositol polyphosphate phosphatase-like 1
14 APRT adenine phosphoribosyltransferase X
13 CHPF chondroitin polymerizing factor
13 B3GAT3 beta-1,3-glucuronyltransferase 3 (glucuronosyltransferase I)
13 EHMT2 euchromatic histone-lysine N-methyltransferase 2
13 SLC25A13 solute carrier family 25 (aspartate/glutamate carrier), member 13
13 DPM2 dolichyl-phosphate mannosyltransferase polypeptide 2, regulatory X