GBA1LP and hepatocellular carcinoma: To explore the roles of GBAP1 in HCC cells metastasis, we respectively altered GBAP1 expression of Hep3B and MHCC97H with pcDNA/GBAP1 or GBAP1 shRNAs, and RT-qPCR was applied to confirm the overexpressing and knockdown efficiencies (Fig. 4A, B).