{"gene":"HSPA1B","run_date":"2026-04-28T18:06:53","timeline":{"discoveries":[{"year":1996,"finding":"HSP70-2 (HSPA2/Hsp70-2) is associated with synaptonemal complexes in the nucleus of meiotic spermatocytes; targeted disruption of Hsp70-2 in mice results in structural abnormalities of synaptonemal complexes by late prophase, failure of meiosis, spermatocyte apoptosis, and male infertility, while females are unaffected.","method":"Gene knockout (targeted gene disruption), immunocytology of synaptonemal complexes, nuclear fractionation","journal":"Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America","confidence":"High","confidence_rationale":"Tier 1-2 — rigorous KO mouse model with clear phenotypic readout replicated in multiple follow-up studies","pmids":["8622925"],"is_preprint":false},{"year":1997,"finding":"HSP70-2 is required specifically for synaptonemal complex desynapsis during meiotic prophase; in Hsp70-2(-/-) mice synaptonemal complexes form and reach late pachytene but fail to desynapse, preventing diplotene formation and blocking transition to meiotic divisions.","method":"Hsp70-2 knockout mouse analysis, histology, immunohistochemistry, mRNA/antigen expression analysis of stage markers (cyclin A1)","journal":"Development (Cambridge, England)","confidence":"High","confidence_rationale":"Tier 2 — KO with defined cellular phenotype, multiple markers, independent replication of KO model","pmids":["9409676"],"is_preprint":false},{"year":1997,"finding":"HSP70-2 acts as a molecular chaperone for CDC2 kinase in mouse testis: it physically interacts with CDC2, is required for CDC2/cyclin B1 complex formation, and its absence abolishes CDC2 kinase activity for histone H1. Addition of HSP70-2 to Hsp70-2(-/-) testis extracts restores CDC2/cyclin B1 complex formation and CDC2 kinase activity in vitro.","method":"Immunoprecipitation-coupled western blot, in vitro reconstitution, histone H1 kinase assay, Hsp70-2 knockout mice","journal":"Development (Cambridge, England)","confidence":"High","confidence_rationale":"Tier 1 — in vitro reconstitution combined with KO genetic evidence and immunoprecipitation","pmids":["9247342"],"is_preprint":false},{"year":1996,"finding":"HSP70-2 is localized to both cytoplasmic and nuclear fractions in mouse spermatocytes; immunocytological analysis shows HSP70-2 is specifically associated with synaptonemal complexes at pachytene and diplotene stages in mouse and hamster, but not in fetal oocyte synaptonemal complexes, demonstrating a sexually dimorphic localization.","method":"Subcellular fractionation, two-dimensional gel electrophoresis, immunocytology of surface-spread synaptonemal complexes, RT-PCR","journal":"Chromosoma","confidence":"High","confidence_rationale":"Tier 2 — direct localization by multiple orthogonal methods tied to functional context","pmids":["8601336"],"is_preprint":false},{"year":2001,"finding":"MSJ-1, a testis-specific DnaJ cochaperone, physically interacts with Hsp70-2 and can be co-immunoprecipitated with Hsp70-2 from spermatogenic cells; in late differentiating spermatids, MSJ-1 colocalizes with Hsp70-2 at the developing acrosome and postnuclear region.","method":"In vitro binding assay with recombinant proteins, co-immunoprecipitation, immunofluorescence colocalization","journal":"Biology of reproduction","confidence":"Medium","confidence_rationale":"Tier 2-3 — co-IP and in vitro binding, single laboratory","pmids":["11466217"],"is_preprint":false},{"year":2004,"finding":"DjA4 (a type I DnaJ cochaperone) can modulate the ATPase activity of Hsp70-2 and suppresses luciferase aggregation together with Hsp70-2; in vitro, Hsp70-2 behaves similarly to Hsp70-1 in ATPase stimulation and aggregation suppression assays, confirming it has chaperone activity comparable to canonical Hsp70.","method":"In vitro ATPase assay, luciferase refolding and aggregation suppression assays","journal":"Journal of biochemistry","confidence":"Medium","confidence_rationale":"Tier 1 — in vitro biochemical assays, single laboratory","pmids":["15047721"],"is_preprint":false},{"year":2006,"finding":"HSPA2 (Hsp70-2) acquires new functions in post-meiotic spermatids, becoming tightly associated with transition proteins 1 and 2 (major spermatid DNA-packaging proteins), identifying it as the first known transition protein chaperone during spermiogenesis.","method":"Global proteomic approach (mass spectrometry) to identify genome-organizing proteins in condensing spermatids, functional co-association analysis","journal":"The Journal of biological chemistry","confidence":"Medium","confidence_rationale":"Tier 2-3 — proteomics-based identification of interaction, single laboratory","pmids":["17035236"],"is_preprint":false},{"year":2007,"finding":"Hsp70-2 depletion in cancer cells triggers lysosomal membrane permeabilization and cathepsin-dependent, caspase-independent cell death. LEDGF (lens epithelium-derived growth factor) was identified as an Hsp70-2-regulated guardian of lysosomal stability: Hsp70-2 regulates LEDGF expression, which in turn stabilizes lysosomal membranes in human cancer cells.","method":"RNAi knockdown (siRNA), lysosomal membrane permeabilization assay, ectopic overexpression, in vivo xenograft, cell death assays","journal":"Cancer research","confidence":"Medium","confidence_rationale":"Tier 2 — KD with defined pathway placement and multiple readouts, single laboratory","pmids":["17363574"],"is_preprint":false},{"year":2008,"finding":"Bat3/Scythe is a critical regulator of Hsp70-2 protein stability in spermatogenesis: Bat3 deficiency causes polyubiquitylation and subsequent proteasomal degradation of Hsp70-2. Inhibition of proteasomal degradation restores Hsp70-2 protein levels. Loss of Hsp70-2 protein (despite normal transcript levels) is associated with abnormal synaptonemal complex assembly/disassembly and male germ cell apoptosis.","method":"Bat3 conditional knockout mice, western blot for Hsp70-2 protein and mRNA, ubiquitylation assays, proteasome inhibitor rescue experiments, SYCP3/gamma-H2AX/Rad51 immunostaining","journal":"The Journal of cell biology","confidence":"High","confidence_rationale":"Tier 1-2 — KO mouse + biochemical ubiquitylation assay + proteasome inhibitor rescue, mechanistically rigorous","pmids":["18678708"],"is_preprint":false},{"year":2008,"finding":"HSF1 and HSF2 transcription factors are present in epididymal spermatozoa and bind the Hspa1b promoter in vivo; HSF2 binding to the Hspa1b promoter increases from early to late spermatids, suggesting these factors bookmark the Hspa1b promoter to allow rapid gene expression during minor zygotic genome activation after fertilization.","method":"Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP), western blot, immunofluorescence","journal":"Biology of reproduction","confidence":"Medium","confidence_rationale":"Tier 2 — ChIP with functional model, single laboratory","pmids":["18434628"],"is_preprint":false},{"year":2009,"finding":"RNA polymerase II is present in epididymal spermatozoa and bound to the Hspa1b promoter, supporting a model in which pre-loaded transcription machinery (HSF1, HSF2, SP1, Pol II) enables rapid Hspa1b expression after fertilization during minor zygotic genome activation.","method":"Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP), western blot","journal":"Reproduction (Cambridge, England)","confidence":"Medium","confidence_rationale":"Tier 2 — ChIP in spermatozoa, functional model supported, single laboratory","pmids":["19336471"],"is_preprint":false},{"year":2009,"finding":"Hypoxia induces HSP70-2 expression in cancer cells through direct binding of HIF-1α to a hypoxia-responsive element (HRE1) at position -446 of the HSP70-2 promoter; mutation of HRE1 abrogates hypoxia-induced promoter activity, and upregulation of HSP70-2 enhances resistance to hypoxia-induced apoptosis.","method":"Luciferase reporter assays, chromatin immunoprecipitation, site-directed mutagenesis, HIF-1α siRNA knockdown, western blot","journal":"International journal of cancer","confidence":"High","confidence_rationale":"Tier 1-2 — luciferase assays with mutagenesis + ChIP + siRNA, multiple orthogonal methods","pmids":["18844219"],"is_preprint":false},{"year":2006,"finding":"The HSP70-2 promoter contains a tonicity-responsive enhancer (TonE) site at -135 that is essential for induction by hypertonic stress in human kidney cells; site-directed mutagenesis of this TonE site abolishes hypertonicity-induced promoter activation, demonstrating TonEBP as a key regulator of HSPA1B under osmotic stress.","method":"Luciferase reporter assays with deletion and site-directed mutagenesis, transfection in human embryonic kidney epithelial cells and fibroblasts","journal":"Experimental & molecular medicine","confidence":"Medium","confidence_rationale":"Tier 1 — reconstitution with mutagenesis, single laboratory","pmids":["16819288"],"is_preprint":false},{"year":2004,"finding":"A HSPA1B promoter polymorphism (HSPA1B-179C>T) in linkage disequilibrium with HSPA1B1267A>G is functionally associated with variable production of HSPA1A and HSPA1B mRNA after LPS stimulation in mononuclear cells, with the C/C homozygotes showing lower HSPA1A and HSPA1B mRNA levels after 8 hours of LPS stimulation.","method":"Promoter sequencing, RT-PCR after LPS stimulation, linkage disequilibrium analysis","journal":"Intensive care medicine","confidence":"Medium","confidence_rationale":"Tier 2-3 — functional mRNA assay in primary cells with defined polymorphism, single laboratory","pmids":["15232679"],"is_preprint":false},{"year":2014,"finding":"HSP70-2 knockdown in renal cell carcinoma cells significantly reduces cellular growth, colony formation, migration, and invasion; HSP70-2 protein is predominantly localized in the cytoplasm and colocalizes with endoplasmic reticulum, mitochondria, Golgi body, and plasma membrane but not the nuclear envelope.","method":"shRNA knockdown, cell proliferation assay, colony formation, migration/invasion assays, immunofluorescence colocalization with organelle markers","journal":"Tumour biology","confidence":"Medium","confidence_rationale":"Tier 2-3 — KD with defined cellular phenotypes and subcellular localization, single laboratory","pmids":["25213699"],"is_preprint":false},{"year":2010,"finding":"HSP70-2 knockdown in bladder urothelial carcinoma cells significantly suppresses cellular motility, invasion, and tumor growth in vivo in xenograft models, demonstrating a functional role for HSP70-2 in cancer cell migration and invasion.","method":"shRNA knockdown, migration assay, invasion assay, in vivo xenograft tumor growth","journal":"European journal of cancer","confidence":"Medium","confidence_rationale":"Tier 2 — KD with in vitro and in vivo phenotypic readouts, single laboratory","pmids":["19914824"],"is_preprint":false},{"year":2014,"finding":"miR-15a directly binds the 3'-UTR of HSPA1B mRNA and represses its expression; miR-15a and HSPA1B show inverse expression correlation in sperm from varicocele patients.","method":"Dual-luciferase 3'-UTR reporter assay, miRNA overexpression/inhibition, qPCR in clinical sperm samples","journal":"Reproduction (Cambridge, England)","confidence":"Medium","confidence_rationale":"Tier 2-3 — direct 3'-UTR luciferase validation, single laboratory","pmids":["24481955"],"is_preprint":false},{"year":2016,"finding":"HSP70-2 depletion in breast cancer cells (MDA-MB-231, MCF7) reduces cellular growth, motility, invasion, and tumor xenograft growth, and is associated with reduced expression of cyclins, CDKs, anti-apoptotic molecules, and mesenchymal markers, and increased expression of CDK inhibitors, caspases, pro-apoptotic molecules, and epithelial markers.","method":"Plasmid-driven shRNA knockdown, proliferation/apoptosis/senescence/migration/invasion assays, flow cytometry, western blot for pathway molecules, in vivo xenograft","journal":"Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research","confidence":"Medium","confidence_rationale":"Tier 2 — KD with pathway analysis and in vivo model, single laboratory","pmids":["27658496"],"is_preprint":false},{"year":2008,"finding":"HSP70-2 knockdown in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cells induces mitochondria-dependent apoptosis, characterized by cytochrome c release, caspase-9 and caspase-3 activation, loss of mitochondrial membrane potential, Bax upregulation, and Bcl-2 downregulation.","method":"shRNA knockdown, flow cytometry (mitochondrial membrane potential), western blot for apoptosis pathway proteins, MTT cell proliferation assay","journal":"Zhonghua gan zang bing za zhi","confidence":"Medium","confidence_rationale":"Tier 2 — KD with defined mitochondrial apoptosis pathway placement, single laboratory","pmids":["18822209"],"is_preprint":false},{"year":2016,"finding":"Recombinant human Tat-Hsp70-2 produced in E. coli shows ATPase activity and, when added to human neuroblastoma SH-SY5Y cells under hydrogen peroxide or 6-hydroxydopamine stress, partially protects cells from these cytotoxic treatments.","method":"Recombinant protein expression and purification, ATPase activity assay, cell viability assay","journal":"Protein expression and purification","confidence":"Medium","confidence_rationale":"Tier 1-2 — in vitro ATPase assay plus cell-based protection assay, single laboratory","pmids":["27405095"],"is_preprint":false},{"year":2022,"finding":"UBQLN2 physically binds HSPA1B in vitro, and this interaction is temperature-regulated: raising temperature from 37°C to 42°C dramatically increases UBQLN2-HSPA1B binding, while restoration to 37°C decreases it. ALS/FTD-associated UBQLN2 mutants show attenuated conformational changes at 42°C but retain similar HSPA1B binding.","method":"In vitro protein binding assay, intrinsic tryptophan fluorescence measurement, comparison of wild-type vs. ALS/FTD UBQLN2 mutants","journal":"Biochimica et biophysica acta. General subjects","confidence":"Medium","confidence_rationale":"Tier 2 — in vitro binding with temperature manipulation and mutant analysis, single laboratory","pmids":["36423739"],"is_preprint":false},{"year":2020,"finding":"miR-23a-5p is a tonicity-responsive miRNA that targets HSPA1B 3'-UTR: downregulation of miR-23a-5p under hypertonic stress promotes HSPA1B expression, increasing renal cell survival, while miR-23a-5p overexpression suppresses HSPA1B and reduces cell viability. An inverse correlation between miR-23a-5p and HSPA1B is confirmed in mouse renal inner medulla in vivo.","method":"miRNA profiling, dual-luciferase 3'-UTR reporter assay, miRNA knockdown/overexpression, cell viability assay, RNA sequencing, in vivo mouse kidney analysis","journal":"American journal of physiology. Cell physiology","confidence":"Medium","confidence_rationale":"Tier 2 — luciferase validation of direct targeting plus in vivo correlation, single laboratory","pmids":["33206547"],"is_preprint":false},{"year":2024,"finding":"TREM-2 deficiency in macrophages increases the MMP-9/TIMP-1 ratio in their secreted exosomes via the HSPa1b/AKT pathway; inhibition of HSPa1b (using VER-155008) or AKT reverses the anti-fibrotic effect, placing HSPa1b upstream of AKT in this macrophage exosome-mediated pathway that alleviates renal fibrosis.","method":"Macrophage TREM-2 knockout, exosome isolation, RNA-seq, in vitro and in vivo fibrosis models, chemical inhibitors (VER-155008, Ly294002), AAV-shTREM-2 in vivo","journal":"American journal of physiology. Renal physiology","confidence":"Medium","confidence_rationale":"Tier 2 — genetic KO + inhibitor epistasis + in vivo model, single laboratory","pmids":["39657110"],"is_preprint":false},{"year":2002,"finding":"A 3'-UTR sequence variant of the porcine inducible hsp70.2 gene increases mRNA half-life in reporter gene assays, demonstrating post-transcriptional regulation of hsp70.2 mRNA stability by 3'-UTR sequence variation.","method":"Reporter gene (mRNA stability) assay with 3'-UTR sequence variants, comparative sequence analysis","journal":"Biochimica et biophysica acta","confidence":"Medium","confidence_rationale":"Tier 2 — direct functional mRNA stability assay, single laboratory (ortholog in pig, consistent with mammalian gene function)","pmids":["12393191"],"is_preprint":false}],"current_model":"HSPA1B (HSP70-2) encodes a molecular chaperone that, in male germ cells, associates with synaptonemal complexes, is required for their desynapsis, and acts as a chaperone for CDC2 kinase—enabling CDC2/cyclin B1 complex assembly and kinase activity needed for the G2/M transition in meiosis I; its protein stability is regulated by Bat3-mediated ubiquitylation and proteasomal degradation; in somatic and cancer cells, HSPA1B expression is transcriptionally controlled by HIF-1α (via a promoter HRE) and tonicity (via a promoter TonE site), post-transcriptionally regulated by miR-15a and miR-23a-5p targeting its 3'-UTR, and is required for lysosomal stability (via LEDGF regulation), suppression of mitochondrial apoptosis, and promotion of cell migration and invasion, while UBQLN2 binds HSPA1B in a temperature-dependent manner relevant to the heat shock response."},"narrative":{"teleology":[{"year":1996,"claim":"Establishing that HSP70-2 is a synaptonemal-complex-associated protein essential for male meiosis resolved a long-standing question of whether individual HSP70 family members have non-redundant developmental roles.","evidence":"Gene knockout in mice with immunocytology and nuclear fractionation of spermatocytes","pmids":["8622925","8601336"],"confidence":"High","gaps":["Mechanism by which HSP70-2 stabilizes or remodels synaptonemal complexes was unknown","Why female meiosis is unaffected remained unexplained"]},{"year":1997,"claim":"Defining the meiotic arrest point (failure of desynapsis at late pachytene) and identifying CDC2 kinase as a direct HSP70-2 client revealed the dual mechanism—structural role at synaptonemal complexes and chaperone-dependent cell-cycle activation—through which HSP70-2 drives meiosis I.","evidence":"Hsp70-2 KO mouse histology with stage markers; co-immunoprecipitation of HSP70-2–CDC2, in vitro reconstitution of CDC2/cyclin B1 activity","pmids":["9409676","9247342"],"confidence":"High","gaps":["Whether HSP70-2 has additional meiotic substrates beyond CDC2 was not tested","Structural basis of HSP70-2 interaction with synaptonemal complex proteins was unresolved"]},{"year":2001,"claim":"Identification of testis-specific DnaJ cochaperones (MSJ-1, DjA4) that partner with HSP70-2 established that its chaperone cycle in germ cells uses dedicated J-domain cofactors rather than housekeeping cochaperones.","evidence":"Co-immunoprecipitation, in vitro binding, immunofluorescence colocalization in spermatogenic cells; in vitro ATPase and luciferase aggregation assays","pmids":["11466217","15047721"],"confidence":"Medium","gaps":["Whether MSJ-1 or DjA4 are required in vivo for HSP70-2 function was not shown genetically","Stoichiometry and selectivity of cochaperone pairing were not determined"]},{"year":2006,"claim":"Discovery that HSP70-2 associates with transition proteins 1/2 in condensing spermatids extended its functional scope beyond meiosis into post-meiotic chromatin remodeling during spermiogenesis.","evidence":"Mass-spectrometry-based proteomics of genome-organizing proteins in condensing spermatids","pmids":["17035236"],"confidence":"Medium","gaps":["Functional consequence of disrupting the HSP70-2–transition protein interaction was not tested","Whether HSP70-2 is required for histone-to-protamine transition was unknown"]},{"year":2006,"claim":"Mapping transcriptional control elements—a HIF-1α-responsive HRE and a TonE site—on the HSPA1B promoter explained how this chaperone is induced under hypoxia and osmotic stress in somatic cells.","evidence":"Luciferase reporters with site-directed mutagenesis, ChIP for HIF-1α, HIF-1α siRNA","pmids":["16819288","18844219"],"confidence":"High","gaps":["Chromatin context and combinatorial regulation with heat-shock elements were not fully dissected","Whether these regulatory elements are active in all somatic tissues was not tested"]},{"year":2007,"claim":"Demonstrating that HSP70-2 depletion causes lysosomal membrane permeabilization via loss of LEDGF expression, and separately triggers mitochondrial apoptosis, placed HSP70-2 at the nexus of two distinct pro-survival pathways in cancer cells.","evidence":"siRNA/shRNA knockdown in cancer cell lines, lysosomal and mitochondrial apoptosis pathway assays, xenograft models","pmids":["17363574","18822209"],"confidence":"Medium","gaps":["Direct molecular mechanism linking HSP70-2 to LEDGF transcription or stability was not identified","Whether the lysosomal and mitochondrial pathways are independent or connected was unresolved"]},{"year":2008,"claim":"Bat3/Scythe was identified as a critical upstream stabilizer of HSP70-2 protein: Bat3 loss leads to HSP70-2 polyubiquitylation and proteasomal degradation, phenocopying the Hsp70-2 KO meiotic defects, and revealing a post-translational quality-control axis for this chaperone.","evidence":"Bat3 conditional KO mice, ubiquitylation assays, proteasome inhibitor rescue of HSP70-2 protein","pmids":["18678708"],"confidence":"High","gaps":["The E3 ligase responsible for HSP70-2 ubiquitylation in the absence of Bat3 was not identified","Whether Bat3 directly shields HSP70-2 or acts indirectly was not resolved"]},{"year":2008,"claim":"Detection of HSF1, HSF2, SP1, and RNA Pol II pre-loaded on the Hspa1b promoter in mature spermatozoa suggested a bookmarking mechanism for rapid HSPA1B transcription during zygotic genome activation after fertilization.","evidence":"Chromatin immunoprecipitation in epididymal spermatozoa","pmids":["18434628","19336471"],"confidence":"Medium","gaps":["Functional necessity of promoter bookmarking for early embryonic Hspa1b expression was not demonstrated by loss-of-function","Whether transcription actually initiates from this bookmarked state after fertilization was not directly shown"]},{"year":2014,"claim":"Identification of miR-15a and later miR-23a-5p as direct negative regulators of HSPA1B via its 3′-UTR established a post-transcriptional regulatory layer, relevant to spermatogenic defects (varicocele) and tonicity-responsive renal cell survival.","evidence":"Dual-luciferase 3′-UTR reporter assays, miRNA overexpression/inhibition, clinical sperm and in vivo kidney miRNA-mRNA correlation","pmids":["24481955","33206547"],"confidence":"Medium","gaps":["Contribution of miR-15a to HSPA1B regulation in non-reproductive tissues was not tested","Relative quantitative impact of each miRNA versus transcriptional regulation was not compared"]},{"year":2016,"claim":"Comprehensive knockdown studies in breast and other cancer types consolidated the view that HSPA1B supports tumor cell proliferation, migration, invasion, and epithelial–mesenchymal transition while suppressing apoptosis.","evidence":"shRNA knockdown in multiple cancer lines, proliferation/apoptosis/migration/invasion assays, western blot for cyclins/CDKs/caspases/EMT markers, xenograft models","pmids":["27658496","19914824","25213699"],"confidence":"Medium","gaps":["Direct chaperone clients mediating the pro-invasive and EMT phenotypes were not identified","Whether effects are HSPA1B-specific or shared with other inducible HSP70 paralogues was not resolved"]},{"year":2022,"claim":"Temperature-dependent binding of UBQLN2 to HSPA1B linked the ubiquilin proteostasis network to the heat-shock response, with ALS/FTD-associated UBQLN2 mutations attenuating this conformational switch.","evidence":"In vitro binding and tryptophan fluorescence assays with wild-type and mutant UBQLN2 at 37°C and 42°C","pmids":["36423739"],"confidence":"Medium","gaps":["Cellular relevance of UBQLN2–HSPA1B interaction during heat shock was not demonstrated","Whether the interaction involves HSPA1B client handoff to the proteasome was not tested"]},{"year":2024,"claim":"Placement of HSPA1B upstream of AKT in a TREM-2-regulated macrophage exosome pathway affecting renal fibrosis expanded HSPA1B function into intercellular signaling and tissue remodeling.","evidence":"TREM-2 KO macrophages, exosome isolation, RNA-seq, HSP70 inhibitor (VER-155008) and AKT inhibitor epistasis, in vivo fibrosis model","pmids":["39657110"],"confidence":"Medium","gaps":["Whether HSPA1B acts as a cargo, a signaling mediator, or a chaperone within exosomes was not determined","Specificity of VER-155008 for HSPA1B versus other HSP70 family members was not confirmed"]},{"year":null,"claim":"Key unresolved questions include the identity of the E3 ubiquitin ligase targeting HSPA1B in the absence of Bat3, the direct client proteins that mediate HSPA1B's pro-invasive and anti-apoptotic effects in cancer cells, the structural basis of its interaction with synaptonemal complex components, and the functional redundancy versus specificity relative to HSPA1A and HSPA2.","evidence":"","pmids":[],"confidence":"Low","gaps":["E3 ligase for HSPA1B ubiquitylation unidentified","Direct chaperone clients in cancer invasion pathway unknown","Paralog-specific versus shared functions with HSPA1A/HSPA2 not systematically resolved"]}],"mechanism_profile":{"molecular_activity":[{"term_id":"GO:0044183","term_label":"protein folding chaperone","supporting_discovery_ids":[2,5,19]},{"term_id":"GO:0140657","term_label":"ATP-dependent activity","supporting_discovery_ids":[5,19]},{"term_id":"GO:0098772","term_label":"molecular function regulator activity","supporting_discovery_ids":[2,7,22]}],"localization":[{"term_id":"GO:0005634","term_label":"nucleus","supporting_discovery_ids":[0,3]},{"term_id":"GO:0005694","term_label":"chromosome","supporting_discovery_ids":[0,1,3]},{"term_id":"GO:0005829","term_label":"cytosol","supporting_discovery_ids":[3,14]},{"term_id":"GO:0005886","term_label":"plasma membrane","supporting_discovery_ids":[14]},{"term_id":"GO:0005739","term_label":"mitochondrion","supporting_discovery_ids":[14]},{"term_id":"GO:0005783","term_label":"endoplasmic reticulum","supporting_discovery_ids":[14]},{"term_id":"GO:0005794","term_label":"Golgi apparatus","supporting_discovery_ids":[14]}],"pathway":[{"term_id":"R-HSA-1640170","term_label":"Cell Cycle","supporting_discovery_ids":[2,17]},{"term_id":"R-HSA-5357801","term_label":"Programmed Cell Death","supporting_discovery_ids":[7,18]},{"term_id":"R-HSA-392499","term_label":"Metabolism of proteins","supporting_discovery_ids":[5,8,19]},{"term_id":"R-HSA-1474165","term_label":"Reproduction","supporting_discovery_ids":[0,1,6]},{"term_id":"R-HSA-8953854","term_label":"Metabolism of RNA","supporting_discovery_ids":[16,21]},{"term_id":"R-HSA-8953897","term_label":"Cellular responses to stimuli","supporting_discovery_ids":[11,12]}],"complexes":["CDC2/cyclin B1 (as chaperone)"],"partners":["CDC2","BAT3","MSJ1","DNAJA4","UBQLN2","LEDGF","SYCP3"],"other_free_text":[]},"mechanistic_narrative":"HSPA1B encodes an inducible HSP70-family molecular chaperone with ATP-dependent protein-folding activity that fulfills essential, sex-specific roles in male meiosis and broad cytoprotective functions in somatic and cancer cells. In male germ cells, HSPA1B associates with synaptonemal complexes during pachytene, is required for their desynapsis at the diplotene transition, and chaperones CDC2 kinase to enable CDC2/cyclin B1 complex assembly and kinase activation needed for the meiotic G2/M transition; its protein stability in spermatocytes depends on Bat3-mediated protection from polyubiquitylation and proteasomal degradation [PMID:8622925, PMID:9409676, PMID:9247342, PMID:18678708]. HSPA1B transcription is induced by hypoxia via HIF-1α binding a promoter HRE and by hypertonic stress via a TonE element, while its mRNA is post-transcriptionally repressed by miR-15a and miR-23a-5p targeting the 3′-UTR [PMID:18844219, PMID:16819288, PMID:24481955, PMID:33206547]. In cancer cells, HSPA1B depletion triggers lysosomal membrane permeabilization through loss of LEDGF-dependent lysosomal stabilization, activates mitochondria-dependent apoptosis, and suppresses cell migration and invasion [PMID:17363574, PMID:18822209, PMID:19914824]."},"prefetch_data":{"uniprot":{"accession":"P0DMV9","full_name":"Heat shock 70 kDa protein 1B","aliases":["Heat shock 70 kDa protein 2","HSP70-2","HSP70.2","Heat shock protein family A member 1B"],"length_aa":641,"mass_kda":70.1,"function":"Molecular chaperone implicated in a wide variety of cellular processes, including protection of the proteome from stress, folding and transport of newly synthesized polypeptides, activation of proteolysis of misfolded proteins and the formation and dissociation of protein complexes. Plays a pivotal role in the protein quality control system, ensuring the correct folding of proteins, the re-folding of misfolded proteins and controlling the targeting of proteins for subsequent degradation. This is achieved through cycles of ATP binding, ATP hydrolysis and ADP release, mediated by co-chaperones. The co-chaperones have been shown to not only regulate different steps of the ATPase cycle, but they also have an individual specificity such that one co-chaperone may promote folding of a substrate while another may promote degradation. The affinity for polypeptides is regulated by its nucleotide bound state. In the ATP-bound form, it has a low affinity for substrate proteins. However, upon hydrolysis of the ATP to ADP, it undergoes a conformational change that increases its affinity for substrate proteins. It goes through repeated cycles of ATP hydrolysis and nucleotide exchange, which permits cycles of substrate binding and release. The co-chaperones are of three types: J-domain co-chaperones such as HSP40s (stimulate ATPase hydrolysis by HSP70), the nucleotide exchange factors (NEF) such as BAG1/2/3 (facilitate conversion of HSP70 from the ADP-bound to the ATP-bound state thereby promoting substrate release), and the TPR domain chaperones such as HOPX and STUB1 (PubMed:24012426, PubMed:24318877, PubMed:26865365). Maintains protein homeostasis during cellular stress through two opposing mechanisms: protein refolding and degradation. Its acetylation/deacetylation state determines whether it functions in protein refolding or protein degradation by controlling the competitive binding of co-chaperones HOPX and STUB1. During the early stress response, the acetylated form binds to HOPX which assists in chaperone-mediated protein refolding, thereafter, it is deacetylated and binds to ubiquitin ligase STUB1 that promotes ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation (PubMed:27708256). Regulates centrosome integrity during mitosis, and is required for the maintenance of a functional mitotic centrosome that supports the assembly of a bipolar mitotic spindle (PubMed:27137183). Enhances STUB1-mediated SMAD3 ubiquitination and degradation and facilitates STUB1-mediated inhibition of TGF-beta signaling (PubMed:24613385). 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mutation of HRE1 abrogates hypoxia-induced promoter activity, and upregulation of HSP70-2 enhances resistance to hypoxia-induced apoptosis.\",\n      \"method\": \"Luciferase reporter assays, chromatin immunoprecipitation, site-directed mutagenesis, HIF-1α siRNA knockdown, western blot\",\n      \"journal\": \"International journal of cancer\",\n      \"confidence\": \"High\",\n      \"confidence_rationale\": \"Tier 1-2 — luciferase assays with mutagenesis + ChIP + siRNA, multiple orthogonal methods\",\n      \"pmids\": [\"18844219\"],\n      \"is_preprint\": false\n    },\n    {\n      \"year\": 2006,\n      \"finding\": \"The HSP70-2 promoter contains a tonicity-responsive enhancer (TonE) site at -135 that is essential for induction by hypertonic stress in human kidney cells; site-directed mutagenesis of this TonE site abolishes hypertonicity-induced promoter activation, demonstrating TonEBP as a key regulator of HSPA1B under osmotic stress.\",\n      \"method\": \"Luciferase reporter assays with deletion and site-directed mutagenesis, transfection in human embryonic kidney epithelial cells and fibroblasts\",\n      \"journal\": \"Experimental & molecular medicine\",\n      \"confidence\": \"Medium\",\n      \"confidence_rationale\": \"Tier 1 — reconstitution with mutagenesis, single laboratory\",\n      \"pmids\": [\"16819288\"],\n      \"is_preprint\": false\n    },\n    {\n      \"year\": 2004,\n      \"finding\": \"A HSPA1B promoter polymorphism (HSPA1B-179C>T) in linkage disequilibrium with HSPA1B1267A>G is functionally associated with variable production of HSPA1A and HSPA1B mRNA after LPS stimulation in mononuclear cells, with the C/C homozygotes showing lower HSPA1A and HSPA1B mRNA levels after 8 hours of LPS stimulation.\",\n      \"method\": \"Promoter sequencing, RT-PCR after LPS stimulation, linkage disequilibrium analysis\",\n      \"journal\": \"Intensive care medicine\",\n      \"confidence\": \"Medium\",\n      \"confidence_rationale\": \"Tier 2-3 — functional mRNA assay in primary cells with defined polymorphism, single laboratory\",\n      \"pmids\": [\"15232679\"],\n      \"is_preprint\": false\n    },\n    {\n      \"year\": 2014,\n      \"finding\": \"HSP70-2 knockdown in renal cell carcinoma cells significantly reduces cellular growth, colony formation, migration, and invasion; 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ALS/FTD-associated UBQLN2 mutants show attenuated conformational changes at 42°C but retain similar HSPA1B binding.\",\n      \"method\": \"In vitro protein binding assay, intrinsic tryptophan fluorescence measurement, comparison of wild-type vs. ALS/FTD UBQLN2 mutants\",\n      \"journal\": \"Biochimica et biophysica acta. General subjects\",\n      \"confidence\": \"Medium\",\n      \"confidence_rationale\": \"Tier 2 — in vitro binding with temperature manipulation and mutant analysis, single laboratory\",\n      \"pmids\": [\"36423739\"],\n      \"is_preprint\": false\n    },\n    {\n      \"year\": 2020,\n      \"finding\": \"miR-23a-5p is a tonicity-responsive miRNA that targets HSPA1B 3'-UTR: downregulation of miR-23a-5p under hypertonic stress promotes HSPA1B expression, increasing renal cell survival, while miR-23a-5p overexpression suppresses HSPA1B and reduces cell viability. An inverse correlation between miR-23a-5p and HSPA1B is confirmed in mouse renal inner medulla in vivo.\",\n      \"method\": \"miRNA profiling, dual-luciferase 3'-UTR reporter assay, miRNA knockdown/overexpression, cell viability assay, RNA sequencing, in vivo mouse kidney analysis\",\n      \"journal\": \"American journal of physiology. Cell physiology\",\n      \"confidence\": \"Medium\",\n      \"confidence_rationale\": \"Tier 2 — luciferase validation of direct targeting plus in vivo correlation, single laboratory\",\n      \"pmids\": [\"33206547\"],\n      \"is_preprint\": false\n    },\n    {\n      \"year\": 2024,\n      \"finding\": \"TREM-2 deficiency in macrophages increases the MMP-9/TIMP-1 ratio in their secreted exosomes via the HSPa1b/AKT pathway; inhibition of HSPa1b (using VER-155008) or AKT reverses the anti-fibrotic effect, placing HSPa1b upstream of AKT in this macrophage exosome-mediated pathway that alleviates renal fibrosis.\",\n      \"method\": \"Macrophage TREM-2 knockout, exosome isolation, RNA-seq, in vitro and in vivo fibrosis models, chemical inhibitors (VER-155008, Ly294002), AAV-shTREM-2 in vivo\",\n      \"journal\": \"American journal of physiology. Renal physiology\",\n      \"confidence\": \"Medium\",\n      \"confidence_rationale\": \"Tier 2 — genetic KO + inhibitor epistasis + in vivo model, single laboratory\",\n      \"pmids\": [\"39657110\"],\n      \"is_preprint\": false\n    },\n    {\n      \"year\": 2002,\n      \"finding\": \"A 3'-UTR sequence variant of the porcine inducible hsp70.2 gene increases mRNA half-life in reporter gene assays, demonstrating post-transcriptional regulation of hsp70.2 mRNA stability by 3'-UTR sequence variation.\",\n      \"method\": \"Reporter gene (mRNA stability) assay with 3'-UTR sequence variants, comparative sequence analysis\",\n      \"journal\": \"Biochimica et biophysica acta\",\n      \"confidence\": \"Medium\",\n      \"confidence_rationale\": \"Tier 2 — direct functional mRNA stability assay, single laboratory (ortholog in pig, consistent with mammalian gene function)\",\n      \"pmids\": [\"12393191\"],\n      \"is_preprint\": false\n    }\n  ],\n  \"current_model\": \"HSPA1B (HSP70-2) encodes a molecular chaperone that, in male germ cells, associates with synaptonemal complexes, is required for their desynapsis, and acts as a chaperone for CDC2 kinase—enabling CDC2/cyclin B1 complex assembly and kinase activity needed for the G2/M transition in meiosis I; its protein stability is regulated by Bat3-mediated ubiquitylation and proteasomal degradation; in somatic and cancer cells, HSPA1B expression is transcriptionally controlled by HIF-1α (via a promoter HRE) and tonicity (via a promoter TonE site), post-transcriptionally regulated by miR-15a and miR-23a-5p targeting its 3'-UTR, and is required for lysosomal stability (via LEDGF regulation), suppression of mitochondrial apoptosis, and promotion of cell migration and invasion, while UBQLN2 binds HSPA1B in a temperature-dependent manner relevant to the heat shock response.\"\n}\n```","stage2_raw":"```json\n{\n  \"mechanistic_narrative\": \"HSPA1B encodes an inducible HSP70-family molecular chaperone with ATP-dependent protein-folding activity that fulfills essential, sex-specific roles in male meiosis and broad cytoprotective functions in somatic and cancer cells. In male germ cells, HSPA1B associates with synaptonemal complexes during pachytene, is required for their desynapsis at the diplotene transition, and chaperones CDC2 kinase to enable CDC2/cyclin B1 complex assembly and kinase activation needed for the meiotic G2/M transition; its protein stability in spermatocytes depends on Bat3-mediated protection from polyubiquitylation and proteasomal degradation [PMID:8622925, PMID:9409676, PMID:9247342, PMID:18678708]. HSPA1B transcription is induced by hypoxia via HIF-1α binding a promoter HRE and by hypertonic stress via a TonE element, while its mRNA is post-transcriptionally repressed by miR-15a and miR-23a-5p targeting the 3′-UTR [PMID:18844219, PMID:16819288, PMID:24481955, PMID:33206547]. In cancer cells, HSPA1B depletion triggers lysosomal membrane permeabilization through loss of LEDGF-dependent lysosomal stabilization, activates mitochondria-dependent apoptosis, and suppresses cell migration and invasion [PMID:17363574, PMID:18822209, PMID:19914824].\",\n  \"teleology\": [\n    {\n      \"year\": 1996,\n      \"claim\": \"Establishing that HSP70-2 is a synaptonemal-complex-associated protein essential for male meiosis resolved a long-standing question of whether individual HSP70 family members have non-redundant developmental roles.\",\n      \"evidence\": \"Gene knockout in mice with immunocytology and nuclear fractionation of spermatocytes\",\n      \"pmids\": [\"8622925\", \"8601336\"],\n      \"confidence\": \"High\",\n      \"gaps\": [\"Mechanism by which HSP70-2 stabilizes or remodels synaptonemal complexes was unknown\", \"Why female meiosis is unaffected remained unexplained\"]\n    },\n    {\n      \"year\": 1997,\n      \"claim\": \"Defining the meiotic arrest point (failure of desynapsis at late pachytene) and identifying CDC2 kinase as a direct HSP70-2 client revealed the dual mechanism—structural role at synaptonemal complexes and chaperone-dependent cell-cycle activation—through which HSP70-2 drives meiosis I.\",\n      \"evidence\": \"Hsp70-2 KO mouse histology with stage markers; co-immunoprecipitation of HSP70-2–CDC2, in vitro reconstitution of CDC2/cyclin B1 activity\",\n      \"pmids\": [\"9409676\", \"9247342\"],\n      \"confidence\": \"High\",\n      \"gaps\": [\"Whether HSP70-2 has additional meiotic substrates beyond CDC2 was not tested\", \"Structural basis of HSP70-2 interaction with synaptonemal complex proteins was unresolved\"]\n    },\n    {\n      \"year\": 2001,\n      \"claim\": \"Identification of testis-specific DnaJ cochaperones (MSJ-1, DjA4) that partner with HSP70-2 established that its chaperone cycle in germ cells uses dedicated J-domain cofactors rather than housekeeping cochaperones.\",\n      \"evidence\": \"Co-immunoprecipitation, in vitro binding, immunofluorescence colocalization in spermatogenic cells; in vitro ATPase and luciferase aggregation assays\",\n      \"pmids\": [\"11466217\", \"15047721\"],\n      \"confidence\": \"Medium\",\n      \"gaps\": [\"Whether MSJ-1 or DjA4 are required in vivo for HSP70-2 function was not shown genetically\", \"Stoichiometry and selectivity of cochaperone pairing were not determined\"]\n    },\n    {\n      \"year\": 2006,\n      \"claim\": \"Discovery that HSP70-2 associates with transition proteins 1/2 in condensing spermatids extended its functional scope beyond meiosis into post-meiotic chromatin remodeling during spermiogenesis.\",\n      \"evidence\": \"Mass-spectrometry-based proteomics of genome-organizing proteins in condensing spermatids\",\n      \"pmids\": [\"17035236\"],\n      \"confidence\": \"Medium\",\n      \"gaps\": [\"Functional consequence of disrupting the HSP70-2–transition protein interaction was not tested\", \"Whether HSP70-2 is required for histone-to-protamine transition was unknown\"]\n    },\n    {\n      \"year\": 2006,\n      \"claim\": \"Mapping transcriptional control elements—a HIF-1α-responsive HRE and a TonE site—on the HSPA1B promoter explained how this chaperone is induced under hypoxia and osmotic stress in somatic cells.\",\n      \"evidence\": \"Luciferase reporters with site-directed mutagenesis, ChIP for HIF-1α, HIF-1α siRNA\",\n      \"pmids\": [\"16819288\", \"18844219\"],\n      \"confidence\": \"High\",\n      \"gaps\": [\"Chromatin context and combinatorial regulation with heat-shock elements were not fully dissected\", \"Whether these regulatory elements are active in all somatic tissues was not tested\"]\n    },\n    {\n      \"year\": 2007,\n      \"claim\": \"Demonstrating that HSP70-2 depletion causes lysosomal membrane permeabilization via loss of LEDGF expression, and separately triggers mitochondrial apoptosis, placed HSP70-2 at the nexus of two distinct pro-survival pathways in cancer cells.\",\n      \"evidence\": \"siRNA/shRNA knockdown in cancer cell lines, lysosomal and mitochondrial apoptosis pathway assays, xenograft models\",\n      \"pmids\": [\"17363574\", \"18822209\"],\n      \"confidence\": \"Medium\",\n      \"gaps\": [\"Direct molecular mechanism linking HSP70-2 to LEDGF transcription or stability was not identified\", \"Whether the lysosomal and mitochondrial pathways are independent or connected was unresolved\"]\n    },\n    {\n      \"year\": 2008,\n      \"claim\": \"Bat3/Scythe was identified as a critical upstream stabilizer of HSP70-2 protein: Bat3 loss leads to HSP70-2 polyubiquitylation and proteasomal degradation, phenocopying the Hsp70-2 KO meiotic defects, and revealing a post-translational quality-control axis for this chaperone.\",\n      \"evidence\": \"Bat3 conditional KO mice, ubiquitylation assays, proteasome inhibitor rescue of HSP70-2 protein\",\n      \"pmids\": [\"18678708\"],\n      \"confidence\": \"High\",\n      \"gaps\": [\"The E3 ligase responsible for HSP70-2 ubiquitylation in the absence of Bat3 was not identified\", \"Whether Bat3 directly shields HSP70-2 or acts indirectly was not resolved\"]\n    },\n    {\n      \"year\": 2008,\n      \"claim\": \"Detection of HSF1, HSF2, SP1, and RNA Pol II pre-loaded on the Hspa1b promoter in mature spermatozoa suggested a bookmarking mechanism for rapid HSPA1B transcription during zygotic genome activation after fertilization.\",\n      \"evidence\": \"Chromatin immunoprecipitation in epididymal spermatozoa\",\n      \"pmids\": [\"18434628\", \"19336471\"],\n      \"confidence\": \"Medium\",\n      \"gaps\": [\"Functional necessity of promoter bookmarking for early embryonic Hspa1b expression was not demonstrated by loss-of-function\", \"Whether transcription actually initiates from this bookmarked state after fertilization was not directly shown\"]\n    },\n    {\n      \"year\": 2014,\n      \"claim\": \"Identification of miR-15a and later miR-23a-5p as direct negative regulators of HSPA1B via its 3′-UTR established a post-transcriptional regulatory layer, relevant to spermatogenic defects (varicocele) and tonicity-responsive renal cell survival.\",\n      \"evidence\": \"Dual-luciferase 3′-UTR reporter assays, miRNA overexpression/inhibition, clinical sperm and in vivo kidney miRNA-mRNA correlation\",\n      \"pmids\": [\"24481955\", \"33206547\"],\n      \"confidence\": \"Medium\",\n      \"gaps\": [\"Contribution of miR-15a to HSPA1B regulation in non-reproductive tissues was not tested\", \"Relative quantitative impact of each miRNA versus transcriptional regulation was not compared\"]\n    },\n    {\n      \"year\": 2016,\n      \"claim\": \"Comprehensive knockdown studies in breast and other cancer types consolidated the view that HSPA1B supports tumor cell proliferation, migration, invasion, and epithelial–mesenchymal transition while suppressing apoptosis.\",\n      \"evidence\": \"shRNA knockdown in multiple cancer lines, proliferation/apoptosis/migration/invasion assays, western blot for cyclins/CDKs/caspases/EMT markers, xenograft models\",\n      \"pmids\": [\"27658496\", \"19914824\", \"25213699\"],\n      \"confidence\": \"Medium\",\n      \"gaps\": [\"Direct chaperone clients mediating the pro-invasive and EMT phenotypes were not identified\", \"Whether effects are HSPA1B-specific or shared with other inducible HSP70 paralogues was not resolved\"]\n    },\n    {\n      \"year\": 2022,\n      \"claim\": \"Temperature-dependent binding of UBQLN2 to HSPA1B linked the ubiquilin proteostasis network to the heat-shock response, with ALS/FTD-associated UBQLN2 mutations attenuating this conformational switch.\",\n      \"evidence\": \"In vitro binding and tryptophan fluorescence assays with wild-type and mutant UBQLN2 at 37°C and 42°C\",\n      \"pmids\": [\"36423739\"],\n      \"confidence\": \"Medium\",\n      \"gaps\": [\"Cellular relevance of UBQLN2–HSPA1B interaction during heat shock was not demonstrated\", \"Whether the interaction involves HSPA1B client handoff to the proteasome was not tested\"]\n    },\n    {\n      \"year\": 2024,\n      \"claim\": \"Placement of HSPA1B upstream of AKT in a TREM-2-regulated macrophage exosome pathway affecting renal fibrosis expanded HSPA1B function into intercellular signaling and tissue remodeling.\",\n      \"evidence\": \"TREM-2 KO macrophages, exosome isolation, RNA-seq, HSP70 inhibitor (VER-155008) and AKT inhibitor epistasis, in vivo fibrosis model\",\n      \"pmids\": [\"39657110\"],\n      \"confidence\": \"Medium\",\n      \"gaps\": [\"Whether HSPA1B acts as a cargo, a signaling mediator, or a chaperone within exosomes was not determined\", \"Specificity of VER-155008 for HSPA1B versus other HSP70 family members was not confirmed\"]\n    },\n    {\n      \"year\": null,\n      \"claim\": \"Key unresolved questions include the identity of the E3 ubiquitin ligase targeting HSPA1B in the absence of Bat3, the direct client proteins that mediate HSPA1B's pro-invasive and anti-apoptotic effects in cancer cells, the structural basis of its interaction with synaptonemal complex components, and the functional redundancy versus specificity relative to HSPA1A and HSPA2.\",\n      \"evidence\": \"\",\n      \"pmids\": [],\n      \"confidence\": \"Low\",\n      \"gaps\": [\"E3 ligase for HSPA1B ubiquitylation unidentified\", \"Direct chaperone clients in cancer invasion pathway unknown\", \"Paralog-specific versus shared functions with HSPA1A/HSPA2 not systematically resolved\"]\n    }\n  ],\n  \"mechanism_profile\": {\n    \"molecular_activity\": [\n      {\"term_id\": \"GO:0044183\", \"supporting_discovery_ids\": [2, 5, 19]},\n      {\"term_id\": \"GO:0140657\", \"supporting_discovery_ids\": [5, 19]},\n      {\"term_id\": \"GO:0098772\", \"supporting_discovery_ids\": [2, 7, 22]}\n    ],\n    \"localization\": [\n      {\"term_id\": \"GO:0005634\", \"supporting_discovery_ids\": [0, 3]},\n      {\"term_id\": \"GO:0005694\", \"supporting_discovery_ids\": [0, 1, 3]},\n      {\"term_id\": \"GO:0005829\", \"supporting_discovery_ids\": [3, 14]},\n      {\"term_id\": \"GO:0005886\", \"supporting_discovery_ids\": [14]},\n      {\"term_id\": \"GO:0005739\", \"supporting_discovery_ids\": [14]},\n      {\"term_id\": \"GO:0005783\", \"supporting_discovery_ids\": [14]},\n      {\"term_id\": \"GO:0005794\", \"supporting_discovery_ids\": [14]}\n    ],\n    \"pathway\": [\n      {\"term_id\": \"R-HSA-1640170\", \"supporting_discovery_ids\": [2, 17]},\n      {\"term_id\": \"R-HSA-5357801\", \"supporting_discovery_ids\": [7, 18]},\n      {\"term_id\": \"R-HSA-392499\", \"supporting_discovery_ids\": [5, 8, 19]},\n      {\"term_id\": \"R-HSA-1474165\", \"supporting_discovery_ids\": [0, 1, 6]},\n      {\"term_id\": \"R-HSA-8953854\", \"supporting_discovery_ids\": [16, 21]},\n      {\"term_id\": \"R-HSA-8953897\", \"supporting_discovery_ids\": [11, 12]}\n    ],\n    \"complexes\": [\n      \"CDC2/cyclin B1 (as chaperone)\"\n    ],\n    \"partners\": [\n      \"CDC2\",\n      \"BAT3\",\n      \"MSJ1\",\n      \"DNAJA4\",\n      \"UBQLN2\",\n      \"LEDGF\",\n      \"SYCP3\"\n    ],\n    \"other_free_text\": []\n  }\n}\n```"}