Glucose Uptake Assay Kit (Biovision, K676-100), Lactate Assay Kit (Biovision, K667-100), ATP Assay Kit (Promega, FF2000), and NADPH Assay Kit (AAT Bioquest; AAT-15272) were used to examine the products of glycolysis in the OC cells referring to the instructions.
An untargeted metabolomic analysis was performed using mass spectrometry, which involves the following steps: sample pretreatment, metabolite extraction, full scan detection in liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry, data pretreatment, statistical analysis, and differential structure identification. Approximately 1 × 107 cells from each sample were used with six replicates. The cells were fixed with 1-mL mixture (2methanol: 2acetonitrile: 1water). Metabolomic analysis and mass spectrometry were performed by Shanghai Applied Protein Technology.