Total plasma membrane protein was harvested using ultracentrifugation according to Zhang et al. (30 (link)). For tumor samples, tumors were thawed on ice and homogenized in lysis buffer (29 (link)), supplemented with protease inhibitors (20 mL/g tumor). Tumor homogenates were centrifuged at 12,000 rpm for 10 min at 4°C and the resulting supernatants were collected for Western blot analysis. The Western blotting (20 μg total protein per lane) was performed as previously described (29 (link)) using the following antibodies: MCT1 (1:5000; ab3538P, EMD Millipore), MCT4 (1:500; sc50329, Santa Cruz), CD147 (1:100; sc9757, 1:1000; sc9753, Santa Cruz), GLUT1 (1:500; ab40084), the proliferation biomarker Ki67 (1:500; sc23900, Santa Cruz), and GAPDH (1:5000; sc25778, Santa Cruz).