This is of interest in relation to the recent discovery of the active translation of truncated Cx43 isoforms (notably the GJA1-20k form) [6,7,8,33], which we showed also occur in human lung tumour cell lines under regulation of oncogenic pathways frequently activated in lung cancer such as mTOR and MAPK-Mnk1/2 kinases [7]. Here, MTOR is linked to lung cancer.