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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jun 25.
Published in final edited form as: Prostate. 2018 Mar 26;78(10):714–723. doi: 10.1002/pros.23515

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.