BIRC3 and colorectal carcinoma: Fusobacterium nucleatum was also found to induce chemotherapy resistance by BIRC3 expression and autophagy and promote CRC metastasis through long non-coding RNA Keratin7-antisense (KRT7-AS) and Keratin7 (Yu et al., 2017b; Zhang et al., 2019; Chen et al., 2020).