HSPA8 and viral infectious disease: HSC70 has also been known to be associated with many pathological conditions, including cancers (Tian et al., 2018; Martyna et al., 2019; Chen et al., 2020; Liu et al., 2021), viral infections (Dupzyk and Tsai, 2018; Wang et al., 2020; Zhu et al., 2020; Chailangkarn et al., 2021), and neurological disorders (Sirtori et al., 2020).