EEF1A2 is a translation elongation factor gene that was previously shown to promote survival of mouse plasmacytoma cells [48], whereas EIF4E3, RND3/RhoE and FAM129A/Niban encode proteins that participate in various facets of cap-dependent translation initiation (described in more detail below) [38, 49, 50]. This evidence concerns the gene NIBAN1 and plasmacytoma.