Following the knockdown of ITGA2 using short Harpine RNA (shRNA) in PANC-1, HepG2, SGC-7901, and MDA-MB-231 cell lines (Fig. 2)a,b, the MTS and colony formation assays demonstrated that silencing ITGA2 inhibited the cancer cell growth (Fig. 2)c,d. Here, ITGA2 is linked to cancer.