Subsequent studies revealed that CMPD1 could induce G2/M arrest in glioblastoma and gastric cancer cells, as observed by flow cytometry (Li et al., 2018; Gurgis et al., 2015), and suggested its potential role in inhibiting microtubule polymerization in vitro (Gurgis et al., 2015). This evidence concerns the gene SOX9 and glioblastoma.