“…The members of the ANXA protein family play the opposing roles of promoting and inhibiting tumour proliferation through their participation in or activation of signalling pathways. The exceptions are ANXA5, ANXA6, ANXA10 and ANXA11, which play roles in several tumour types, while other ANXA members promote tumour cell proliferation (Grewal et al, 2010;Li et al, 2018a;Liu et al, 2019;Liu et al, 2020;Liu et al, 2021a;Zhou et al, 2021a;Zhou et al, 2021b;Gu et al, 2021;Huang et al, 2021;Ju et al, 2021;Wei and Zhu, 2021). In hepatocellular carcinoma, the overexpression of ANXA2 (Zhang et al, 2013), ANXA3 (Guo et al, 2021a), ANXA4 (Liu et al, 2017), ANXA5 (Sun et al, 2018) and ANXA11 (Liu et al, 2019) promotes proliferation because ANXA2-ANXA5 affect Wnt/β-catenin, MEK-ERK, PI3K/AKT-HIF-α and other pathways.…”