USP14 and cancer: Like USP14 and RPN11, several lines of studies have reported that UCH37 expression is elevated in a number of cancers including esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, hepatocellular carcinoma, epithelial ovarian cancer, endometrial cancer, and lung adenocarcinoma, in which this protease is associated with tumor progression and poor patient survival [91,92,93,94,95,96].