B3GALT5 and hepatocellular carcinoma: To clarify the biological function of B3GALT5-AS1 in HCC, we transfected the B3GALT5-AS1 overexpression plasmid into HCCLM3 cells and Huh7 cells, which were found to express the lower levels of B3GALT5-AS1 among the five HCC cell lines tested (Figure 1(e)).