With this as an important goal, additional studies are warranted in order to identify other cell-proliferation/growth-related factors that could be impacted by selective targeting of xCT (including those involved in cell-cycle and autophagy) not only within PEL cells but also in Burkitt’s lymphoma (BL)-derived cell lines where xCT is also highly expressed (Dai et al., 2014a). Here, SLC7A11 is linked to Burkitt lymphoma.