TMED3 and hepatocellular carcinoma: To explore the biological functions of TMED3 in HCC in vitro, we first detected TMED3 expression in a normal human liver cell line (HL7702) and in HCC cell lines with varying metastatic potential (HCCLM3, MHCC97H, MHCC97L, SMMC-7721, Huh7, HepG2, Hep3B).