OVCAR-4 and MDA-MB-468 both express mutant p53 (L130V and R273H, respectively), suggesting that the increased expression of SLC1A3 in response to glutamine starvation may become uncoupled from wild-type p53, or that some tumor-derived p53 mutants retain the ability to support SLC1A3 expression. Here, SLC1A3 is linked to neoplasm.