Table 7.
AMPKα cellular localization and prostate cancer progression to metastasis.
Non-metastatic primary |
Metastatic primary |
Metastatic secondary |
p-value | |
---|---|---|---|---|
AMPKα (%) | 0.009** | |||
Cytoplasmic only | 21/30 (70.0) | 33/45 (73.3) | 42/45 (93.3) | |
Cytoplasmic and nuclear | 9/30 (30.0) | 12/45 (26.7) | 3/45 (6.7) | |
p-Ser-486/491 AMPKα (%) | <0.0001*** | |||
Cytoplasmic only | 0/21 (0.0) | 4/42 (9.5) | 22/41 (53.7) | |
Cytoplasmic and nuclear | 21/21 (100.0) | 38/42 (90.5) | 19/41 (46.3) | |
p-Thr-172 AMPKα (%) | 0.010* | |||
Cytoplasmic only | 11/23 (47.8) | 20/37 (54.1) | 32/41 (78.0) | |
Cytoplasmic and nuclear | 12/23 (52.2) | 17/37 (45.9) | 9/41 (22.0) |
Cytoplasmic localization with progression to metastasis. Only slides with positive staining analyzed.
p < 0.05,
p < 0.01,
p < 0.0001 determined by Cochran Armitage test for trend.