UBAP2L and cancer: UBAP2L is upregulated in several cancer tissues (He et al., 2018; Li et al., 2022; Wang et al., 2017) and its depletion has been shown to inhibit cancer cell proliferation (Chai et al., 2016; He et al., 2018; Li and Huang, 2014; Li et al., 2022; Ye et al., 2017; Zhao et al., 2015).