Notably, 90K expression has also been found to increase during several viral infections, including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), dengue virus (DENV), influenza A virus (IAV), hantavirus and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-Cov-2) [3, 14, 20, 24, 25, 35]. Here, LGALS3BP is linked to viral infectious disease.