KRT17 and cervical cancer: In addition, studies have shown that KRT17 also effects the proliferation, apoptosis and migration of cervical cancer cells through a regulatory axis involving lncRNA miR205HG -SRSF1-KRT17 and TGF- B1-ERK1/2-MZF1 -KRT17, thus enhancing the characteristics of cervical cancer stem cells (Dong et al., 2019; Wu et al., 2017).