Table 2 Metabolic and signaling pathways affected by statin treatment of MiaPaCa-2 pancreatic cancer cells.

From: Variability in statin-induced changes in gene expression profiles of pancreatic cancer

Path ID

Path name

Cerivastatin

Pitavastatin

Simvastatin

Fluvastatin

Atorvastatin

Lovastatin

Pravastatin

Rosuvastatin

False discovery rate (FDR)

hsa00100

Steroid biosynthesis

<10−7

<10−9

hsa03030

DNA replication

<10−9

<10−9

<10−9

<10−9

<10−8

<10−3

hsa04110

Cell cycle

<10−9

<10−9

<10−8

<10−9

<10−9

<10−6

hsa03040

Spliceosome

<10−9

<10−9

<10−9

<10−9

<10−8

<10−8

hsa03430

Mismatch repair

<10−9

<10−9

<10−5

hsa03440

Homologous recombination

<10−8

<10−8

<10−4

<10−4

hsa03020

RNA polymerase

<10−7

<10−8

<10−5

<10−3

10−3

hsa04144

Endocytosis

<10−6

<10−6

<10−8

<10−6

<10−3

hsa00240

Pyrimidine metabolism

<10−6

<10−6

<10−6

<10−4

<10−3

hsa04146

Peroxisome

<10−5

<10−3

<10−3

hsa03018

RNA degradation

<10−3

hsa03010

Ribosome

<10−8

10−3

<10−3

hsa04010

MAPK signaling pathway

<10−4

<10−3

hsa04540

Gap junction

<10−4

hsa00230

Purine metabolism

<10−4

hsa03410

Base excision repair

<10−3

  1. KEGG pathways enriched for differentially expressed genes (DEG) as detected by GSEA. GSEA was performed individually for each comparison of statin-treated (12 μM) and control samples. FDR < 0.001 was used as a cut-off value.