NMT1 and liver cancer: Moreover, the levels of global N-myristoylation and NMT1 but not NMT2 were parallel elevated not only in clinical liver cancer specimen but also in established liver cancer cell lines (SMMC-7721, HepG2, Bel-7402, Bel-7404, Huh7, and SK-Hep1) compared to normal liver tissues and established hepatocyte lines (THLE-3 and HL-7702), respectively (Figure 1C).