DUB3 (Liu et al., 2017; Wu et al., 2017), OTUB1 (Zhou et al., 2018), and USP27X (Lambies et al., 2019) have been identified as specific DUBs to stabilize Snail and play important roles in Snail-mediated tumor metastasis. The gene discussed is SNAI1; the disease is neoplasm.