ATG14 and gastric cancer: Secondly, it sequesters the miRNA MIR188-3p, which prevents the degradation of ATG14. The EIF3J-DT-MIR188-3p-ATG14 axis has been identified as a crucial pathway involved in the activation of autophagy and chemotherapy resistance in GC cells (Menon and Dhamija, 2018; Luo et al., 2021).