ALK and cancer: Therefore, because we showed that oncogenic ALK repressed the expression of ESRP1 in NSCLC (Figure 3 and Supplementary Figure 1B-1F and 2), we first confirmed that also in BEAS-2B cells the forced expression of EML4-ALK reduced ESRP1 levels, both mRNA and protein, in contrast to EML4-ALKKD (Figure 5E and 5G), thus indicating that oncogenic ALK represses ESRP1 expression both in cancer and normal lung epithelial cells.