Interestingly, in serum free media we show that the regulation of PDK4 by the glucocorticoid receptor agonist dexamethasone only occurs in drug resistant breast cancer cells (Fig. 2c), while the dexamethasone induction is dramatically blunted when TamR-MCF-7 cells are treated in the presence of fetal bovine serum (Fig. 7a; Additional file 1: Figure S4a). Here, PDK4 is linked to breast carcinoma.