MST1 and cervical carcinoma: In studies on human cervical cancer SiHa cells, taurine was observed to inhibit cell proliferation and induce apoptosis, affecting the expression of proteins such as Mammalian Sterile 20-like Kinase 1 (MST1), Bcl-2-associated X protein (Bax), and B-cell lymphoma 2 (Bcl-2) (Li et al. 2019).