Our earlier studies elucidated the mechanism of action of OC on tumor growth by using various cell based screening systems and revealing that OC has profound anticancer activities, such as inducing apoptosis and inhibiting autophagic flux and metastasis in different types of cancer cells (Feng et al., 2012; Lao et al., 2014; Wang et al., 2015). The gene discussed is BGLAP; the disease is cancer.