Based on our previous study, which revealed that the knock-down of YKL-40 suppressed cancer metastasis in lung cancer cell lines, A549 and H460) [41], we firstly wanted to know whether the anti-hYKL-40 IgGs could mimic the knock-down phenotype by antagonizing the activity of hYKL-40 in cancer cell migration. Here, CHI3L1 is linked to cancer.