KIF23 plays a key role in cell proliferation, metabolism, differentiation, metastasis and survival through the activation of PI3K/AKT/mTOR and Wnt/β/Linker protein signaling pathway (Huang et al., 2022; Jin et al., 2022), and has been demonstrated in cancers such as gastric cancer and diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (Gong et al., 2022; Bai and Liu, 2023). Here, MTOR is linked to gastric cancer.