ELAVL1 and cancer: It affected the growth factors and cyclin‐related proteins33, 35, 36, 37, 38 that translated from HuR‐binding ARE‐mRNA.3 HuR knockdown led to G1 arrest39 in cancer cells as well as suramin‐treated cells,35 because HuR regulates cell cycle through stabilization of cell cycle‐related ARE‐mRNA.40, 41 These reports suggested the association between suramin and HuR.