“…Many markers potentially specific for GSCs have been proposed such as A2B5 cell surface ganglioside epitope (A2B5) [26,27], aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) [28], BMI1 polycomb ring finger oncogene (BMI1) [29,30], fucosyltransferase 4 (FUT4) (CD15) [31], Thy-1 cell surface antigen (Thy-1) (CD90) [32], prominin-1 (PROM1) (CD133) [5,6], chemokine (C-X-C motif) receptor 4 (CXCR4) [33], inhibitor of DNA binding 1 (ID1) [34], integrin α6 (ITGA6) [35], L1 cell adhesion molecule (L1CAM) [36], maternal embryonic leucine zipper kinase (MELK) [37], musashi-1 (msi1) [38], nestin (NES) [38][39][40], octamer-binding transcription factor 4 (OCT4) [41], OLIG2 [42] and SOX2 [38,[43][44][45]. Among these, much attention has been given to CD133, which is currently used to identify and isolate GSCs [40,43,[46][47][48][49][50].…”