A systemic analysis of monocarboxylate transporters in ovarian cancer and possible therapeutic interventions
Priti Chatterjee & Sib Sankar Roy et al. · 2023-11-07
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Monocarboxylate transporters (MCTs) play an immense role in metabolically active solid tumors by regulating concentration-dependent transport of different important monocarboxylates including pyruvate and lactate and are encoded by the SLC16A family of genes. Given the vast array of functions, these transporters play in oncogenesis, our objective was to look into the association of MCT1 (SLC16A1), MCT2 (SLC16A7), MCT3 (SLC16A8), and MCT4 (SLC16A3) with Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) pathophysiology by exploiting various publicly available databases and web resources. Few of the
MCT4 has emerged as a prospective marker for predicting poor patient outcomes and a potential therapeutic target for therapeutic intervention in Epithelial ovarian cancer pathophysiology.