Acknowledgement
We sincerely thank Professor Kyung Hyun Yoo of Sookmyung Women's University for providing the four HCC cell lines, which were instrumental in this work. This research was supported by a National Research Foundation (NRF) grant funded by the Korean government (MSIT) (No. 2022R1A2C3003115) and by an NRF grant funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) (2018R1A5A1024261, SRC).
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