NIBAN1 and cancer: As mentioned before, the NIBAN1 protein is highly expressed in several diseases and cancer cells, and may play an important role in cell maintenance, such as cell stress (Adachi et al., 2004; Sun et al., 2007; Ji et al., 2012; Qaisiya et al., 2017; Nozima et al., 2019; Pällmann et al., 2019; Yim et al., 2020), autophagy (Qaisiya et al., 2017; Nozima et al., 2019), and others survival biological processes (Table 1).