MYL9 and gastric cancer: To determine the biological function of MYL9, we first examined the basal expression of MYL9 in 10 GC cell lines and GES1 (Figure 7A), and we constructed MYL9 knockdown cells (MGC803-siMYL9 and MKN28-siMYL9) by transfecting GC cells with small-interfering RNAs.