Immunohistochemical staining was performed using Dako REALTM EnVisionTM Detection System (K5007, Dako, Glostrup, Denmark) in accordance with the manufacturer’s protocol. Rabbit anti-human VDAC2 polyclonal antibody (ab126120, Abcam) and mouse anti-human SOX2 (ab171380, Abcam) were used as the primary antibodies. Immunohistochemical scores of VDAC2 and SOX2 were calculated independently by two histopathologists in a blinded manner according to the staining intensity and percentage of positive tumor cells68 (link). The best predictive cutoff value of VDAC2 expression was determined to be 6 analyzed by X-tile software. The score ≥ 6 was defined as VDAC2high, otherwise was defined as VDAC2low.
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