POU5F1 and cervical carcinoma: We recently reported that, OCT4 promotes cervical cancer invasion and proliferation by enhancing PD-L1 expression through a miR-18a-dependent mechanism, by which miR-18a upregulates PD-L1 by targeting PTEN, WNK2 and SOX6 to activate the PI3K/AKT, MEK/ERK and Wnt/β-catenin pathways and inhibit the p53 pathway (25).