“…LETM1-mediated regulation of mitochondrial biogenesis, metabolism, and cell survival signaling has provided impetus to investigate LETM1 activity in various human cancers ( Dimmer et al, 2008 ; Piao et al, 2009a ; Li et al, 2015 ). Multiple human malignancies, including breast, colon, esophagus, lung, ovary, rectum, stomach, and uterine cervix, report high LETM1-expression profile correlating with poor prognosis, low survival rates, upregulation of cancer stemness genes, and enhanced angiogenesis ( Piao et al, 2009a , 2019a , b , 2020 ; Li et al, 2015 , 2020 ; Wang et al, 2015 , 2020 ; Huang et al, 2017a ; Yang et al, 2018 ). In thyroid, prostate, ovarian, and gastric cancers, LETM1 overexpression is correlated with increased cell survival via enhanced Akt signaling ( Lee et al, 2016 ; Piao et al, 2020 ; Wang et al, 2020 ; Zhang et al, 2020 ).…”