Infected galectin-3-depleted cells showed not only loss of mitochondrial membrane potential but also an increase in caspase-3 activity and elevated proteolytic processing of poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase after 4 and 8 h post-infection (Pineda et al., 2015b; da Silva et al., 2017; Chain et al., 2020). Here, LGALS3 is linked to infection.