EIF5A and cancer: eIF5A proteins are important in physiological and pathophysiological processes including protein synthesis and biomass production in cancer (Bandino et al., 2014; Coni et al., 2020; Kim et al., 2022; Liu et al., 2016; Mathews and Hershey, 2015; Nakanishi and Cleveland, 2016; Schultz et al., 2018; Wang et al., 2013; Wei et al., 2014), embryonic and neuronal development, Alzheimer's disease (Smeltzer et al., 2021), and viral replication (Ebola, Zika, Dengue, other) (Farache et al., 2022; Olsen et al., 2018; Singh et al., 2022).