The viral infection-related functions of the eEF1B complex well described in Li et al. (2013) are not a subject of this mini-review, though some virus-related partners of eEF1B subunits were found in the cytoplasmic and nuclear fractions of lung carcinoma cells (Kapustian et al., 2017; Kapustian et al., 2018; Kapustian et al., 2019). The gene discussed is EEF1B2; the disease is lung carcinoma.