At translational levels UCP2 is activated by glutamine [95,104,105] and inhibited by miRNAs, miR-133a [106] and miR-15a [107], both considered tumor suppressors and found downregulated in many types of cancer [108,109,110,111,112,113,114,115,116,117,118,119,120]. This evidence concerns the gene UCP2 and cancer.