DDIT4 is a stress-response protein whose main function is to inhibit mTOR under stressful conditions.DDIT4 is considered an oncogene (Smith & Xu, 2009), and its overexpression is significantly associated with poorer prognosis in tumor patients (Tirado-Hurtado, Fajardo & Pinto, 2018). Here, MTOR is linked to neoplasm.