PROM1 and ovarian carcinoma: As side populations (SP) cells have been identified to closely correlate with cancer stem cell-like traits and CD133 expression can define a tumor initiating cell population in primary human ovarian cancer [25, 26], we found that the subpopulations of SP+ and CD133+ cells were both significantly increased in miR-1207-transduced ovarian cancer cells compared with the vector control cells (Figure 2C and 2D).