{"gene":"ITPR2","run_date":"2026-04-28T18:06:54","timeline":{"discoveries":[{"year":2014,"finding":"ITPR2 mediates calcium release from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), and this calcium is subsequently taken up by mitochondria via the mitochondrial calcium uniporter (MCU). During oncogene-induced senescence (OIS), this ER-to-mitochondria calcium transfer leads to decreased mitochondrial membrane potential, reactive oxygen species accumulation, and cellular senescence. Loss-of-function of either ITPR2 or MCU allows escape from OIS.","method":"Loss-of-function genetic screen, siRNA knockdown, calcium imaging, mitochondrial membrane potential assays, ROS measurements","journal":"Nature communications","confidence":"High","confidence_rationale":"Tier 2 — multiple orthogonal methods in a single study, replicated in replicative senescence context, mechanistic pathway clearly defined","pmids":["24797322"],"is_preprint":false},{"year":2021,"finding":"ITPR2 calcium-release channel and calcium fluxes from ER to mitochondria drive cellular senescence. Itpr2 knockout mice show decreased mitochondria-ER contacts, and forced ER-mitochondria contacts induce premature senescence, establishing that ITPR2-facilitated ER-mitochondria contacts are mechanistically required for senescence induction.","method":"Itpr2 knockout mice, electron microscopy of ER-mitochondria contacts, forced contact induction, aging phenotype characterization","journal":"Nature communications","confidence":"High","confidence_rationale":"Tier 2 — reciprocal genetic and structural evidence across in vitro and in vivo systems, moderate-to-strong evidence","pmids":["33526781"],"is_preprint":false},{"year":2013,"finding":"IP3R2 forms complexes with Bcl-2, and disruption of the IP3R2/Bcl-2 complex using a BH4-domain-targeting peptide (TAT-IDP(S)) promotes IP3R2-mediated pro-apoptotic Ca2+ signaling. The apoptotic sensitivity of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma cells to this peptide correlates specifically with IP3R2 protein levels, not IP3R1 or IP3R3 levels. Knockdown of IP3R2 reduces TAT-IDP(S)-induced apoptosis.","method":"siRNA knockdown, Ca2+ imaging, apoptosis assays, IP3R inhibitor, correlation analysis across cell lines","journal":"Cell death & disease","confidence":"High","confidence_rationale":"Tier 2 — multiple orthogonal approaches (inhibitor, siRNA, multiple cell lines), isoform-specific functional role established","pmids":["23681227"],"is_preprint":false},{"year":2015,"finding":"IP3R2 is the primary mediator of GPCR-dependent somatic Ca2+ signaling in astrocytes. Ip3r2-/- mice lack somatic astrocyte Ca2+ responses but retain diverse Ca2+ fluctuations in astrocyte processes and end feet, indicating that IP3R2 specifically underlies somatic but not process-localized Ca2+ signaling.","method":"Ip3r2-/- mouse model, two-photon Ca2+ imaging in brain slices and in vivo, GPCR stimulation, startle response paradigm","journal":"Nature neuroscience","confidence":"High","confidence_rationale":"Tier 2 — in vivo and ex vivo imaging in knockout mouse, spatially resolved Ca2+ measurements, strong evidence","pmids":["25894291"],"is_preprint":false},{"year":2014,"finding":"IP3R2 is the dominant IP3 receptor isoform in astrocytes mediating GPCR-dependent Ca2+ fluxes from the ER. IP3R2 conditional knockout in astrocytes abolishes GPCR-dependent astrocytic Ca2+ responses, but this loss does not affect a broad range of mouse behaviors including anxiety, motor function, or Morris water maze performance.","method":"IP3R2 conditional knockout mouse, Ca2+ imaging, behavioral battery testing","journal":"Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience","confidence":"High","confidence_rationale":"Tier 2 — clean conditional KO with defined Ca2+ phenotype and comprehensive behavioral readouts","pmids":["25429263"],"is_preprint":false},{"year":2016,"finding":"ERP44 (ER protein 44) inhibits IP3R2-mediated Ca2+ release from the ER in lung cancer cells. ERP44 overexpression reduces intracellular Ca2+ release, alters cell morphology, and inhibits migration of A549 cells specifically via IP3R2, as knockdown of IP3R2 (but not IP3R1 or IP3R3) mimics the migration-inhibiting effect.","method":"ERP44 overexpression, IP3R2/1/3 siRNA knockdown, wound healing assay, Ca2+ imaging, cell morphology analysis","journal":"Aging","confidence":"Medium","confidence_rationale":"Tier 2 — isoform-specific siRNA knockdown with functional cell migration readout, single lab","pmids":["27347718"],"is_preprint":false},{"year":2018,"finding":"The IP3-binding core (IBC) domain of human ITPR2 (residues 224–604) binds IP3 with high affinity. IP3 binding induces conformational changes in both secondary and tertiary structure of the IBC domain. Key conserved residues R269, K508, and R511 are implicated in the ligand-binding site.","method":"Molecular cloning, bacterial expression, protein purification, far-CD spectroscopy, intrinsic fluorescence spectroscopy, bioinformatics","journal":"International journal of biological macromolecules","confidence":"Medium","confidence_rationale":"Tier 1 — in vitro biochemical characterization with structural methods, but single study without mutagenesis validation","pmids":["30244130"],"is_preprint":false},{"year":2022,"finding":"BMAL1 (core circadian clock component) directly regulates transcription of ITPR2 (and ITPR3) in secretory gland acinar cells. Loss of BMAL1 downregulates ITPR2 expression, impairs secretory function, and causes vacuolation and apoptosis; restoration of ITPR2 and ITPR3 expression in Bmal1-deficient rats rescues lacrimal and parotid gland secretory dysfunction.","method":"Bmal1 knockout rats, viral rescue of ITPR2/ITPR3 expression, secretion functional assays, ChIP/transcription analysis implied","journal":"The ocular surface","confidence":"Medium","confidence_rationale":"Tier 2 — rescue experiment in vivo establishes direct transcriptional regulatory relationship, single lab","pmids":["39343166"],"is_preprint":false},{"year":2022,"finding":"Autophagy-dependent increases in detyrosinated α-tubulin enhance formation of an IP3R2-VDAC1-MICU1 complex at ER-mitochondria contact sites, which mediates transfer of extracellular (plasma membrane-localized) Ca2+ from IP3R2 to mitochondria, causing mitochondrial Ca2+ overload and insulin resistance in hepatocytes.","method":"Co-immunoprecipitation, autophagy inhibitors, siRNA, Ca2+ imaging, mitochondrial fractionation, mouse model of PFOS exposure","journal":"The Science of the total environment","confidence":"Medium","confidence_rationale":"Tier 2–3 — Co-IP identifying complex members, multiple inhibitor/siRNA approaches, but single lab","pmids":["35192817"],"is_preprint":false},{"year":2024,"finding":"IP3R2-mediated Ca2+ release activates the NLRP3/Caspase-1/GSDMD pyroptosis pathway in cardiomyocytes. LPS increases IP3R2 expression and ATP-induced intracellular Ca2+ release; inhibiting IP3R2 with xestospongin C or siRNA knockdown reverses LPS-induced pyroptosis. Additionally, ER stress and IP3R2-mediated Ca2+ release mutually regulate each other.","method":"siRNA knockdown, pharmacological inhibition (xestospongin C, MCC950), Ca2+ imaging, western blot, ELISA, rat LPS model","journal":"Cell death discovery","confidence":"Medium","confidence_rationale":"Tier 2 — siRNA plus pharmacological inhibition with defined downstream pathway in vitro and in vivo, single lab","pmids":["38378646"],"is_preprint":false},{"year":2024,"finding":"miR-129 directly targets ITPR2 mRNA and represses its expression, controlling a cascade of intracellular Ca2+ signaling from ER to mitochondria. Reduced miR-129 in senescent cells allows increased ITPR2-mediated Ca2+ transfer to mitochondria via MCU, decreasing mitochondrial membrane potential, increasing ROS and DNA damage, promoting cellular senescence.","method":"miRNA overexpression/inhibition, luciferase reporter assay (implied direct targeting), Ca2+ imaging, MMP assay, ROS measurement, mouse intraperitoneal injection of miR-129","journal":"Mechanisms of ageing and development","confidence":"Medium","confidence_rationale":"Tier 2–3 — direct miRNA-target relationship with functional Ca2+/senescence phenotype, single lab","pmids":["38218462"],"is_preprint":false},{"year":2021,"finding":"ITPR2-mediated calcium release in oligodendrocytes regulates the development of CAII+ type I/II oligodendrocytes and determines myelin fiber sizes. Itpr2 deficiency causes developmental delay of oligodendrocyte differentiation, increasing the proportion of small-caliber myelinated axons and leading to abnormal compound action potentials in optic nerves.","method":"Conventional and conditional Itpr2 mutant mice, immunostaining, electrophysiology (compound action potential recordings)","journal":"Frontiers in cellular neuroscience","confidence":"Medium","confidence_rationale":"Tier 2 — conditional KO with specific cellular and functional phenotype, single lab","pmids":["34630045"],"is_preprint":false},{"year":2024,"finding":"Loss of ITPR2 in oligodendrocytes disturbs Ca2+ homeostasis, increases resting [Ca2+]i (compensated by upregulation of plasma membrane Ca2+ channels), inhibits OPC proliferation via MAPK/ERK-CDK6/cyclin D1 axis, and impairs myelination in adolescent mice, leading to anxiety/depressive-like behaviors.","method":"OL-specific Itpr2 conditional knockout, transcriptome profiling, MAPK/ERK inhibitor rescue, Ca2+ imaging, behavioral tests","journal":"Advanced science","confidence":"Medium","confidence_rationale":"Tier 2 — conditional KO with pathway rescue and transcriptomic analysis, multiple orthogonal methods, single lab","pmids":["38476116"],"is_preprint":false},{"year":2022,"finding":"Astrocyte IP3R2-mediated Ca2+ signaling is required for experience-dependent Hebbian depression (LTD) in mouse barrel cortex. In IP3R2-/- mice or upon acute astrocytic Ca2+ buffering, 1 Hz stimulation that normally induces LTD instead produces NMDAR-dependent LTP, revealing a mechanistic switch. Both WT LTD and IP3R2-/- 1 Hz LTP involve non-ionotropic NMDAR signaling, but only WT LTD is P38 MAPK-dependent.","method":"IP3R2-/- mice, in vivo and ex vivo electrophysiology, acute astrocytic Ca2+ chelation (BAPTA), pharmacological dissection of LTP/LTD pathways","journal":"Frontiers in cellular neuroscience","confidence":"Medium","confidence_rationale":"Tier 2 — genetic KO combined with acute Ca2+ buffering and pharmacological pathway dissection, single lab","pmids":["36090792"],"is_preprint":false},{"year":2025,"finding":"FMO2 localizes to mitochondria-associated ER membranes (MAMs) and binds IP3R2 as a component of the IP3R2-Grp75-VDAC1 complex, maintaining ER-mitochondria contact and regulating mitochondrial Ca2+ signaling for bioenergetics. FMO2 deletion worsens and overexpression prevents pathological cardiac hypertrophy in vivo.","method":"Co-immunoprecipitation, MAM-targeted mass spectrometry, AAV9-mediated overexpression, cardiomyocyte-specific genetic mouse models, synthetic peptide rescue","journal":"Circulation","confidence":"Medium","confidence_rationale":"Tier 2 — Co-IP identifying complex with in vivo genetic and peptide rescue, single lab","pmids":["40489543"],"is_preprint":false},{"year":2025,"finding":"FUNDC1 binds IP3R2 at MAMs to regulate ER-to-mitochondria Ca2+ transfer. FUNDC1 knockdown reduces mitochondrial Ca2+ concentration and increases IP3R2 ubiquitination (promoting its degradation), while FUNDC1 overexpression promotes mitochondrial dysfunction and pyroptosis in cardiomyocytes in a mitochondrial ROS-dependent manner.","method":"Co-immunoprecipitation (FUNDC1-IP3R2 interaction), siRNA knockdown, overexpression, ubiquitination assay, mitochondrial Ca2+ measurement, Mito Tempo rescue","journal":"Life sciences","confidence":"Medium","confidence_rationale":"Tier 2–3 — Co-IP identifies binding partner with downstream functional consequences, ubiquitination as PTM identified, single lab","pmids":["40451326"],"is_preprint":false},{"year":2024,"finding":"DPP4 binding to IGF2-R on Treg cell surface activates PKA/SP1 signaling, which upregulates ERp29 expression; ERp29 binds to IP3R2, inhibiting its degradation and promoting MAM formation and mitochondrial Ca2+ overload in Tregs, thereby impairing Treg function.","method":"Co-immunoprecipitation (ERp29-IP3R2 binding), siRNA knockdown of pathway components, Ca2+ imaging, mouse model","journal":"Metabolism: clinical and experimental","confidence":"Medium","confidence_rationale":"Tier 2–3 — Co-IP identifies ERp29 as IP3R2-stabilizing partner, mechanistic pathway established, single lab","pmids":["36302455"],"is_preprint":false},{"year":2024,"finding":"IP3R2-MAM-mediated mitochondrial Ca2+ overload drives mitochondrial dysfunction and apoptosis in photoreceptors under hypoxia. IP3R2 knockdown limits MAM formation, reduces mitochondrial Ca2+ overload, improves mitochondrial morphology and function, and attenuates apoptosis.","method":"siRNA knockdown, transmission electron microscopy, ER-mitochondria colocalization, MAM reporter, flow cytometry, western blot, in vivo subretinal injection model","journal":"Experimental eye research","confidence":"Medium","confidence_rationale":"Tier 2 — multiple structural and functional readouts in vivo and in vitro, single lab","pmids":["38851477"],"is_preprint":false},{"year":2020,"finding":"Tcirg1/V-ATPase knockdown reduces IP3R2 expression in osteoclast precursors, which decreases intracellular calcium levels and limits nuclear translocation of NFATc1, thereby inhibiting large osteoclast generation during RANKL-induced differentiation.","method":"Lentiviral knockdown of Tcirg1, IP3R2 expression analysis, intracellular Ca2+ measurement, NFATc1 nuclear localization assay, bone marrow-derived monocyte differentiation","journal":"PloS one","confidence":"Low","confidence_rationale":"Tier 3 — indirect regulatory relationship, single-pathway analysis without direct IP3R2 functional rescue, single lab","pmids":["32790690"],"is_preprint":false},{"year":2025,"finding":"Astrocytic IP3R2-mediated Ca2+ transients are required for the modulatory effect of locomotion on neurons in mouse somatosensory cortex. In Itpr2-/- mice, locomotion-induced modulation of neuronal Ca2+ activity is absent despite preserved astrocytic Ca2+ activity, suggesting a non-synaptic mechanism by which IP3R2-dependent astrocytic Ca2+ transients modulate local neuronal circuits.","method":"Dual-color two-photon Ca2+ imaging of astrocytes and neurons simultaneously in awake-behaving Itpr2-/- mice","journal":"Cells","confidence":"Medium","confidence_rationale":"Tier 2 — in vivo dual-color imaging in knockout model with defined cellular and behavioral context, single lab","pmids":["40710356"],"is_preprint":false},{"year":2025,"finding":"IP3R2 is a negative regulator of melanophagy. IP3R2 knockdown decreases mitochondrial Ca2+ uptake, augments ADP/ATP ratio, activates AMPK-ULK1 pathway to induce melanophagy. Simultaneously, IP3R2 knockdown increases ER-lysosome proximity, elevates lysosomal Ca2+, reduces lysosomal pH, activates TRPML1, and promotes nuclear translocation of TFEB to transcriptionally upregulate autophagy and melanophagy genes. This function is specific to IP3R2 and not IP3R1 or IP3R3.","method":"siRNA knockdown, novel ratiometric live-cell imaging probes for melanophagy, biochemical assays, confocal microscopy, Ca2+ imaging, zebrafish in vivo model","journal":"bioRxiv","confidence":"Medium","confidence_rationale":"Tier 2 — multiple orthogonal methods, in vivo validation in zebrafish, novel probes; preprint status limits confidence","pmids":[],"is_preprint":true}],"current_model":"ITPR2 is an ER-resident IP3-gated Ca2+ release channel that, upon IP3 binding to its conserved IBC domain (residues R269, K508, R511), releases Ca2+ from the ER into the cytosol and, via physical ER-mitochondria contact sites (MAMs) involving the IP3R2-Grp75-VDAC1 complex, transfers Ca2+ into the mitochondrial matrix through MCU; elevated mitochondrial Ca2+ decreases mitochondrial membrane potential and increases ROS, thereby driving cellular senescence, pyroptosis, and apoptosis, while in astrocytes IP3R2-mediated somatic Ca2+ release modulates neuronal circuit function including synaptic plasticity and locomotion-evoked responses, and in oligodendrocytes it governs Ca2+ homeostasis required for OPC proliferation, differentiation, and proper myelination."},"narrative":{"teleology":[{"year":2013,"claim":"Establishing that IP3R2 is the specific isoform whose expression level determines pro-apoptotic calcium signaling upon disruption of the Bcl-2/IP3R complex answered whether individual IP3R isoforms have non-redundant roles in apoptosis.","evidence":"siRNA knockdown of IP3R1/2/3 individually and correlation of TAT-IDP(S)-induced apoptosis with IP3R2 levels across diffuse large B-cell lymphoma lines","pmids":["23681227"],"confidence":"High","gaps":["Structural basis of Bcl-2 selectivity for IP3R2 over other isoforms unknown","Relevance beyond DLBCL not tested"]},{"year":2014,"claim":"Demonstrating that ITPR2-mediated ER-to-mitochondria calcium transfer via MCU drives ROS accumulation, mitochondrial depolarization, and oncogene-induced senescence established a direct mechanistic link between IP3R2 calcium flux and the senescence program.","evidence":"Loss-of-function screen, siRNA knockdown of ITPR2 and MCU, calcium imaging, ROS and mitochondrial membrane potential assays in OIS models","pmids":["24797322"],"confidence":"High","gaps":["Identity of adaptor proteins mediating ER-mitochondria contact in this context not defined","Whether other IP3R isoforms can substitute under chronic conditions unknown"]},{"year":2014,"claim":"Identifying IP3R2 as the dominant astrocytic IP3 receptor for GPCR-dependent somatic calcium signals — while showing residual process-localized calcium is IP3R2-independent — defined the spatial selectivity of IP3R2 in glial calcium signaling.","evidence":"Ip3r2 knockout and conditional knockout mice with two-photon calcium imaging in vivo and in slices, behavioral battery","pmids":["25894291","25429263"],"confidence":"High","gaps":["Molecular identity of calcium sources in astrocyte processes not resolved","Behavioral consequences under more complex cognitive demands remain uncertain"]},{"year":2018,"claim":"Biochemical characterization of the IP3-binding core domain (residues 224–604) with key ligand-coordinating residues R269, K508, R511 provided the first direct structural insight into how IP3R2 recognizes its ligand.","evidence":"Recombinant IBC domain purification, far-CD and intrinsic fluorescence spectroscopy upon IP3 binding","pmids":["30244130"],"confidence":"Medium","gaps":["No mutagenesis validation of individual residue contributions","No high-resolution cryo-EM or crystal structure of IP3R2","Full-length channel gating mechanism not addressed"]},{"year":2021,"claim":"In vivo confirmation that Itpr2 knockout reduces ER-mitochondria contacts and that forced re-establishment of those contacts induces premature senescence provided causal evidence that the physical MAM architecture maintained by IP3R2 — not merely calcium flux — is integral to the senescence mechanism.","evidence":"Itpr2 knockout mice, electron microscopy quantification of ER-mitochondria contacts, forced synthetic linker contacts","pmids":["33526781"],"confidence":"High","gaps":["Molecular partners that tether IP3R2-dependent MAMs in senescence not fully catalogued","Whether MAM structural role is separable from channel activity not resolved"]},{"year":2021,"claim":"Showing that Itpr2 deficiency delays oligodendrocyte differentiation, shifts myelination toward small-caliber axons, and alters optic nerve conduction established a cell-autonomous role for IP3R2 calcium signaling in CNS myelination.","evidence":"Conventional and conditional Itpr2 mutant mice, immunostaining for CAII+ oligodendrocyte subtypes, compound action potential recordings","pmids":["34630045"],"confidence":"Medium","gaps":["Downstream calcium effectors mediating differentiation not identified","Whether the phenotype persists into adulthood not fully characterized"]},{"year":2022,"claim":"Identification of the IP3R2–VDAC1–MICU1 complex at MAMs, assembled on detyrosinated α-tubulin scaffolds upon autophagy activation, revealed how cytoskeletal remodeling controls the composition of ER-mitochondria calcium transfer machinery.","evidence":"Co-immunoprecipitation, autophagy inhibitors, siRNA, calcium imaging in hepatocytes under PFOS exposure","pmids":["35192817"],"confidence":"Medium","gaps":["Stoichiometry and direct versus indirect interactions within the complex not established","Generalizability beyond PFOS-induced model uncertain"]},{"year":2022,"claim":"Demonstrating that astrocytic IP3R2-mediated calcium is required for experience-dependent Hebbian LTD — and that its absence switches the same stimulation to LTP via a distinct NMDAR signaling mode — revealed that astrocytic IP3R2 calcium acts as a gatekeeper of synaptic plasticity polarity.","evidence":"IP3R2 knockout mice, in vivo/ex vivo electrophysiology in barrel cortex, BAPTA-mediated acute astrocyte calcium chelation, pharmacological dissection","pmids":["36090792"],"confidence":"Medium","gaps":["Gliotransmitter identity mediating the plasticity switch not identified","Circuit-level consequences of altered plasticity polarity not tested"]},{"year":2024,"claim":"Linking IP3R2 to NLRP3/Caspase-1/GSDMD pyroptosis in cardiomyocytes and showing mutual regulation with ER stress expanded the downstream effector repertoire of IP3R2-mediated calcium from senescence/apoptosis to inflammatory cell death.","evidence":"siRNA and xestospongin C inhibition of IP3R2, western blot for pyroptosis markers, rat LPS model","pmids":["38378646"],"confidence":"Medium","gaps":["Whether IP3R2 directly or indirectly activates NLRP3 not distinguished","Specificity relative to IP3R1/3 in cardiomyocytes not fully tested"]},{"year":2024,"claim":"Demonstrating that oligodendrocyte-specific Itpr2 deletion impairs OPC proliferation through the MAPK/ERK–CDK6/cyclin D1 axis and causes anxiety/depressive behaviors provided a mechanistic pathway from IP3R2 calcium to cell cycle control and behavioral phenotype.","evidence":"OL-specific Itpr2 conditional knockout, transcriptomics, MAPK/ERK inhibitor rescue, behavioral testing","pmids":["38476116"],"confidence":"Medium","gaps":["Direct calcium sensor linking IP3R2 flux to ERK activation not identified","Whether behavioral phenotype is reversible with remyelination not tested"]},{"year":2025,"claim":"Identification of FMO2 and FUNDC1 as distinct IP3R2-binding partners at MAMs — FMO2 maintaining the IP3R2–Grp75–VDAC1 complex for physiological bioenergetics and FUNDC1 regulating IP3R2 stability through ubiquitination — expanded the molecular inventory controlling IP3R2-dependent mitochondrial calcium transfer in cardiomyocytes.","evidence":"Co-immunoprecipitation, MAM-targeted mass spectrometry, AAV9 rescue in cardiac hypertrophy model (FMO2); Co-IP, ubiquitination assay, Mito Tempo rescue (FUNDC1)","pmids":["40489543","40451326"],"confidence":"Medium","gaps":["Whether FMO2 and FUNDC1 compete for the same IP3R2 binding site unknown","E3 ligase mediating IP3R2 ubiquitination upon FUNDC1 loss not identified","Reciprocal validation across independent labs pending"]},{"year":2025,"claim":"In vivo dual-color imaging in awake Itpr2 knockout mice showed that IP3R2-dependent astrocytic calcium transients are required for locomotion-evoked neuronal modulation, establishing a non-synaptic glial mechanism for state-dependent circuit modulation.","evidence":"Simultaneous two-photon calcium imaging of astrocytes and neurons in somatosensory cortex of behaving Itpr2-/- mice","pmids":["40710356"],"confidence":"Medium","gaps":["Molecular mediator released by astrocytes to modulate neurons not identified","Whether other behavioral states engage the same mechanism not tested"]},{"year":null,"claim":"Critical open questions include: the high-resolution structure of full-length IP3R2 and the gating mechanism distinguishing it from IP3R1/3; the identity of gliotransmitters downstream of astrocytic IP3R2 calcium that control synaptic plasticity; the E3 ubiquitin ligase(s) governing IP3R2 turnover; and whether the MAM-structural and channel-gating functions of IP3R2 are separable in senescence and cell death pathways.","evidence":"","pmids":[],"confidence":"Low","gaps":["No full-length IP3R2 cryo-EM structure published","Gliotransmitter identity downstream of IP3R2 unknown","Separability of MAM tethering versus calcium flux functions unresolved"]}],"mechanism_profile":{"molecular_activity":[{"term_id":"GO:0005215","term_label":"transporter activity","supporting_discovery_ids":[0,2,3,6,9]},{"term_id":"GO:0008289","term_label":"lipid binding","supporting_discovery_ids":[6]}],"localization":[{"term_id":"GO:0005783","term_label":"endoplasmic 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release channel that couples ER calcium stores to mitochondrial and cytosolic signaling across diverse cell types. IP3 binds with high affinity to the IP3-binding core domain (residues 224–604; key residues R269, K508, R511), triggering conformational changes that gate calcium release [PMID:30244130]; at mitochondria-associated ER membranes (MAMs), ITPR2 participates in an IP3R2–Grp75–VDAC1 complex that transfers calcium to mitochondria via MCU, and this ER-to-mitochondria calcium flux drives downstream outcomes including decreased mitochondrial membrane potential, ROS accumulation, and cellular senescence, pyroptosis, or apoptosis depending on context [PMID:24797322, PMID:33526781, PMID:38378646, PMID:40489543]. 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LPS increases IP3R2 expression and ATP-induced intracellular Ca2+ release; inhibiting IP3R2 with xestospongin C or siRNA knockdown reverses LPS-induced pyroptosis. Additionally, ER stress and IP3R2-mediated Ca2+ release mutually regulate each other.\",\n      \"method\": \"siRNA knockdown, pharmacological inhibition (xestospongin C, MCC950), Ca2+ imaging, western blot, ELISA, rat LPS model\",\n      \"journal\": \"Cell death discovery\",\n      \"confidence\": \"Medium\",\n      \"confidence_rationale\": \"Tier 2 — siRNA plus pharmacological inhibition with defined downstream pathway in vitro and in vivo, single lab\",\n      \"pmids\": [\"38378646\"],\n      \"is_preprint\": false\n    },\n    {\n      \"year\": 2024,\n      \"finding\": \"miR-129 directly targets ITPR2 mRNA and represses its expression, controlling a cascade of intracellular Ca2+ signaling from ER to mitochondria. Reduced miR-129 in senescent cells allows increased ITPR2-mediated Ca2+ transfer to mitochondria via MCU, decreasing mitochondrial membrane potential, increasing ROS and DNA damage, promoting cellular senescence.\",\n      \"method\": \"miRNA overexpression/inhibition, luciferase reporter assay (implied direct targeting), Ca2+ imaging, MMP assay, ROS measurement, mouse intraperitoneal injection of miR-129\",\n      \"journal\": \"Mechanisms of ageing and development\",\n      \"confidence\": \"Medium\",\n      \"confidence_rationale\": \"Tier 2–3 — direct miRNA-target relationship with functional Ca2+/senescence phenotype, single lab\",\n      \"pmids\": [\"38218462\"],\n      \"is_preprint\": false\n    },\n    {\n      \"year\": 2021,\n      \"finding\": \"ITPR2-mediated calcium release in oligodendrocytes regulates the development of CAII+ type I/II oligodendrocytes and determines myelin fiber sizes. Itpr2 deficiency causes developmental delay of oligodendrocyte differentiation, increasing the proportion of small-caliber myelinated axons and leading to abnormal compound action potentials in optic nerves.\",\n      \"method\": \"Conventional and conditional Itpr2 mutant mice, immunostaining, electrophysiology (compound action potential recordings)\",\n      \"journal\": \"Frontiers in cellular neuroscience\",\n      \"confidence\": \"Medium\",\n      \"confidence_rationale\": \"Tier 2 — conditional KO with specific cellular and functional phenotype, single lab\",\n      \"pmids\": [\"34630045\"],\n      \"is_preprint\": false\n    },\n    {\n      \"year\": 2024,\n      \"finding\": \"Loss of ITPR2 in oligodendrocytes disturbs Ca2+ homeostasis, increases resting [Ca2+]i (compensated by upregulation of plasma membrane Ca2+ channels), inhibits OPC proliferation via MAPK/ERK-CDK6/cyclin D1 axis, and impairs myelination in adolescent mice, leading to anxiety/depressive-like behaviors.\",\n      \"method\": \"OL-specific Itpr2 conditional knockout, transcriptome profiling, MAPK/ERK inhibitor rescue, Ca2+ imaging, behavioral tests\",\n      \"journal\": \"Advanced science\",\n      \"confidence\": \"Medium\",\n      \"confidence_rationale\": \"Tier 2 — conditional KO with pathway rescue and transcriptomic analysis, multiple orthogonal methods, single lab\",\n      \"pmids\": [\"38476116\"],\n      \"is_preprint\": false\n    },\n    {\n      \"year\": 2022,\n      \"finding\": \"Astrocyte IP3R2-mediated Ca2+ signaling is required for experience-dependent Hebbian depression (LTD) in mouse barrel cortex. In IP3R2-/- mice or upon acute astrocytic Ca2+ buffering, 1 Hz stimulation that normally induces LTD instead produces NMDAR-dependent LTP, revealing a mechanistic switch. Both WT LTD and IP3R2-/- 1 Hz LTP involve non-ionotropic NMDAR signaling, but only WT LTD is P38 MAPK-dependent.\",\n      \"method\": \"IP3R2-/- mice, in vivo and ex vivo electrophysiology, acute astrocytic Ca2+ chelation (BAPTA), pharmacological dissection of LTP/LTD pathways\",\n      \"journal\": \"Frontiers in cellular neuroscience\",\n      \"confidence\": \"Medium\",\n      \"confidence_rationale\": \"Tier 2 — genetic KO combined with acute Ca2+ buffering and pharmacological pathway dissection, single lab\",\n      \"pmids\": [\"36090792\"],\n      \"is_preprint\": false\n    },\n    {\n      \"year\": 2025,\n      \"finding\": \"FMO2 localizes to mitochondria-associated ER membranes (MAMs) and binds IP3R2 as a component of the IP3R2-Grp75-VDAC1 complex, maintaining ER-mitochondria contact and regulating mitochondrial Ca2+ signaling for bioenergetics. FMO2 deletion worsens and overexpression prevents pathological cardiac hypertrophy in vivo.\",\n      \"method\": \"Co-immunoprecipitation, MAM-targeted mass spectrometry, AAV9-mediated overexpression, cardiomyocyte-specific genetic mouse models, synthetic peptide rescue\",\n      \"journal\": \"Circulation\",\n      \"confidence\": \"Medium\",\n      \"confidence_rationale\": \"Tier 2 — Co-IP identifying complex with in vivo genetic and peptide rescue, single lab\",\n      \"pmids\": [\"40489543\"],\n      \"is_preprint\": false\n    },\n    {\n      \"year\": 2025,\n      \"finding\": \"FUNDC1 binds IP3R2 at MAMs to regulate ER-to-mitochondria Ca2+ transfer. FUNDC1 knockdown reduces mitochondrial Ca2+ concentration and increases IP3R2 ubiquitination (promoting its degradation), while FUNDC1 overexpression promotes mitochondrial dysfunction and pyroptosis in cardiomyocytes in a mitochondrial ROS-dependent manner.\",\n      \"method\": \"Co-immunoprecipitation (FUNDC1-IP3R2 interaction), siRNA knockdown, overexpression, ubiquitination assay, mitochondrial Ca2+ measurement, Mito Tempo rescue\",\n      \"journal\": \"Life sciences\",\n      \"confidence\": \"Medium\",\n      \"confidence_rationale\": \"Tier 2–3 — Co-IP identifies binding partner with downstream functional consequences, ubiquitination as PTM identified, single lab\",\n      \"pmids\": [\"40451326\"],\n      \"is_preprint\": false\n    },\n    {\n      \"year\": 2024,\n      \"finding\": \"DPP4 binding to IGF2-R on Treg cell surface activates PKA/SP1 signaling, which upregulates ERp29 expression; ERp29 binds to IP3R2, inhibiting its degradation and promoting MAM formation and mitochondrial Ca2+ overload in Tregs, thereby impairing Treg function.\",\n      \"method\": \"Co-immunoprecipitation (ERp29-IP3R2 binding), siRNA knockdown of pathway components, Ca2+ imaging, mouse model\",\n      \"journal\": \"Metabolism: clinical and experimental\",\n      \"confidence\": \"Medium\",\n      \"confidence_rationale\": \"Tier 2–3 — Co-IP identifies ERp29 as IP3R2-stabilizing partner, mechanistic pathway established, single lab\",\n      \"pmids\": [\"36302455\"],\n      \"is_preprint\": false\n    },\n    {\n      \"year\": 2024,\n      \"finding\": \"IP3R2-MAM-mediated mitochondrial Ca2+ overload drives mitochondrial dysfunction and apoptosis in photoreceptors under hypoxia. IP3R2 knockdown limits MAM formation, reduces mitochondrial Ca2+ overload, improves mitochondrial morphology and function, and attenuates apoptosis.\",\n      \"method\": \"siRNA knockdown, transmission electron microscopy, ER-mitochondria colocalization, MAM reporter, flow cytometry, western blot, in vivo subretinal injection model\",\n      \"journal\": \"Experimental eye research\",\n      \"confidence\": \"Medium\",\n      \"confidence_rationale\": \"Tier 2 — multiple structural and functional readouts in vivo and in vitro, single lab\",\n      \"pmids\": [\"38851477\"],\n      \"is_preprint\": false\n    },\n    {\n      \"year\": 2020,\n      \"finding\": \"Tcirg1/V-ATPase knockdown reduces IP3R2 expression in osteoclast precursors, which decreases intracellular calcium levels and limits nuclear translocation of NFATc1, thereby inhibiting large osteoclast generation during RANKL-induced differentiation.\",\n      \"method\": \"Lentiviral knockdown of Tcirg1, IP3R2 expression analysis, intracellular Ca2+ measurement, NFATc1 nuclear localization assay, bone marrow-derived monocyte differentiation\",\n      \"journal\": \"PloS one\",\n      \"confidence\": \"Low\",\n      \"confidence_rationale\": \"Tier 3 — indirect regulatory relationship, single-pathway analysis without direct IP3R2 functional rescue, single lab\",\n      \"pmids\": [\"32790690\"],\n      \"is_preprint\": false\n    },\n    {\n      \"year\": 2025,\n      \"finding\": \"Astrocytic IP3R2-mediated Ca2+ transients are required for the modulatory effect of locomotion on neurons in mouse somatosensory cortex. In Itpr2-/- mice, locomotion-induced modulation of neuronal Ca2+ activity is absent despite preserved astrocytic Ca2+ activity, suggesting a non-synaptic mechanism by which IP3R2-dependent astrocytic Ca2+ transients modulate local neuronal circuits.\",\n      \"method\": \"Dual-color two-photon Ca2+ imaging of astrocytes and neurons simultaneously in awake-behaving Itpr2-/- mice\",\n      \"journal\": \"Cells\",\n      \"confidence\": \"Medium\",\n      \"confidence_rationale\": \"Tier 2 — in vivo dual-color imaging in knockout model with defined cellular and behavioral context, single lab\",\n      \"pmids\": [\"40710356\"],\n      \"is_preprint\": false\n    },\n    {\n      \"year\": 2025,\n      \"finding\": \"IP3R2 is a negative regulator of melanophagy. IP3R2 knockdown decreases mitochondrial Ca2+ uptake, augments ADP/ATP ratio, activates AMPK-ULK1 pathway to induce melanophagy. Simultaneously, IP3R2 knockdown increases ER-lysosome proximity, elevates lysosomal Ca2+, reduces lysosomal pH, activates TRPML1, and promotes nuclear translocation of TFEB to transcriptionally upregulate autophagy and melanophagy genes. This function is specific to IP3R2 and not IP3R1 or IP3R3.\",\n      \"method\": \"siRNA knockdown, novel ratiometric live-cell imaging probes for melanophagy, biochemical assays, confocal microscopy, Ca2+ imaging, zebrafish in vivo model\",\n      \"journal\": \"bioRxiv\",\n      \"confidence\": \"Medium\",\n      \"confidence_rationale\": \"Tier 2 — multiple orthogonal methods, in vivo validation in zebrafish, novel probes; preprint status limits confidence\",\n      \"pmids\": [],\n      \"is_preprint\": true\n    }\n  ],\n  \"current_model\": \"ITPR2 is an ER-resident IP3-gated Ca2+ release channel that, upon IP3 binding to its conserved IBC domain (residues R269, K508, R511), releases Ca2+ from the ER into the cytosol and, via physical ER-mitochondria contact sites (MAMs) involving the IP3R2-Grp75-VDAC1 complex, transfers Ca2+ into the mitochondrial matrix through MCU; elevated mitochondrial Ca2+ decreases mitochondrial membrane potential and increases ROS, thereby driving cellular senescence, pyroptosis, and apoptosis, while in astrocytes IP3R2-mediated somatic Ca2+ release modulates neuronal circuit function including synaptic plasticity and locomotion-evoked responses, and in oligodendrocytes it governs Ca2+ homeostasis required for OPC proliferation, differentiation, and proper myelination.\"\n}\n```","stage2_raw":"```json\n{\n  \"mechanistic_narrative\": \"ITPR2 is an endoplasmic reticulum-resident inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP3)-gated calcium release channel that couples ER calcium stores to mitochondrial and cytosolic signaling across diverse cell types. IP3 binds with high affinity to the IP3-binding core domain (residues 224–604; key residues R269, K508, R511), triggering conformational changes that gate calcium release [PMID:30244130]; at mitochondria-associated ER membranes (MAMs), ITPR2 participates in an IP3R2–Grp75–VDAC1 complex that transfers calcium to mitochondria via MCU, and this ER-to-mitochondria calcium flux drives downstream outcomes including decreased mitochondrial membrane potential, ROS accumulation, and cellular senescence, pyroptosis, or apoptosis depending on context [PMID:24797322, PMID:33526781, PMID:38378646, PMID:40489543]. In astrocytes, ITPR2 is the dominant IP3 receptor mediating GPCR-dependent somatic calcium transients and is required for experience-dependent synaptic depression and locomotion-evoked neuronal modulation [PMID:25894291, PMID:36090792, PMID:40710356], while in oligodendrocytes it governs calcium homeostasis necessary for OPC proliferation via the MAPK/ERK–CDK6 axis, differentiation, and proper myelination [PMID:34630045, PMID:38476116].\",\n  \"teleology\": [\n    {\n      \"year\": 2013,\n      \"claim\": \"Establishing that IP3R2 is the specific isoform whose expression level determines pro-apoptotic calcium signaling upon disruption of the Bcl-2/IP3R complex answered whether individual IP3R isoforms have non-redundant roles in apoptosis.\",\n      \"evidence\": \"siRNA knockdown of IP3R1/2/3 individually and correlation of TAT-IDP(S)-induced apoptosis with IP3R2 levels across diffuse large B-cell lymphoma lines\",\n      \"pmids\": [\"23681227\"],\n      \"confidence\": \"High\",\n      \"gaps\": [\"Structural basis of Bcl-2 selectivity for IP3R2 over other isoforms unknown\", \"Relevance beyond DLBCL not tested\"]\n    },\n    {\n      \"year\": 2014,\n      \"claim\": \"Demonstrating that ITPR2-mediated ER-to-mitochondria calcium transfer via MCU drives ROS accumulation, mitochondrial depolarization, and oncogene-induced senescence established a direct mechanistic link between IP3R2 calcium flux and the senescence program.\",\n      \"evidence\": \"Loss-of-function screen, siRNA knockdown of ITPR2 and MCU, calcium imaging, ROS and mitochondrial membrane potential assays in OIS models\",\n      \"pmids\": [\"24797322\"],\n      \"confidence\": \"High\",\n      \"gaps\": [\"Identity of adaptor proteins mediating ER-mitochondria contact in this context not defined\", \"Whether other IP3R isoforms can substitute under chronic conditions unknown\"]\n    },\n    {\n      \"year\": 2014,\n      \"claim\": \"Identifying IP3R2 as the dominant astrocytic IP3 receptor for GPCR-dependent somatic calcium signals — while showing residual process-localized calcium is IP3R2-independent — defined the spatial selectivity of IP3R2 in glial calcium signaling.\",\n      \"evidence\": \"Ip3r2 knockout and conditional knockout mice with two-photon calcium imaging in vivo and in slices, behavioral battery\",\n      \"pmids\": [\"25894291\", \"25429263\"],\n      \"confidence\": \"High\",\n      \"gaps\": [\"Molecular identity of calcium sources in astrocyte processes not resolved\", \"Behavioral consequences under more complex cognitive demands remain uncertain\"]\n    },\n    {\n      \"year\": 2018,\n      \"claim\": \"Biochemical characterization of the IP3-binding core domain (residues 224–604) with key ligand-coordinating residues R269, K508, R511 provided the first direct structural insight into how IP3R2 recognizes its ligand.\",\n      \"evidence\": \"Recombinant IBC domain purification, far-CD and intrinsic fluorescence spectroscopy upon IP3 binding\",\n      \"pmids\": [\"30244130\"],\n      \"confidence\": \"Medium\",\n      \"gaps\": [\"No mutagenesis validation of individual residue contributions\", \"No high-resolution cryo-EM or crystal structure of IP3R2\", \"Full-length channel gating mechanism not addressed\"]\n    },\n    {\n      \"year\": 2021,\n      \"claim\": \"In vivo confirmation that Itpr2 knockout reduces ER-mitochondria contacts and that forced re-establishment of those contacts induces premature senescence provided causal evidence that the physical MAM architecture maintained by IP3R2 — not merely calcium flux — is integral to the senescence mechanism.\",\n      \"evidence\": \"Itpr2 knockout mice, electron microscopy quantification of ER-mitochondria contacts, forced synthetic linker contacts\",\n      \"pmids\": [\"33526781\"],\n      \"confidence\": \"High\",\n      \"gaps\": [\"Molecular partners that tether IP3R2-dependent MAMs in senescence not fully catalogued\", \"Whether MAM structural role is separable from channel activity not resolved\"]\n    },\n    {\n      \"year\": 2021,\n      \"claim\": \"Showing that Itpr2 deficiency delays oligodendrocyte differentiation, shifts myelination toward small-caliber axons, and alters optic nerve conduction established a cell-autonomous role for IP3R2 calcium signaling in CNS myelination.\",\n      \"evidence\": \"Conventional and conditional Itpr2 mutant mice, immunostaining for CAII+ oligodendrocyte subtypes, compound action potential recordings\",\n      \"pmids\": [\"34630045\"],\n      \"confidence\": \"Medium\",\n      \"gaps\": [\"Downstream calcium effectors mediating differentiation not identified\", \"Whether the phenotype persists into adulthood not fully characterized\"]\n    },\n    {\n      \"year\": 2022,\n      \"claim\": \"Identification of the IP3R2–VDAC1–MICU1 complex at MAMs, assembled on detyrosinated α-tubulin scaffolds upon autophagy activation, revealed how cytoskeletal remodeling controls the composition of ER-mitochondria calcium transfer machinery.\",\n      \"evidence\": \"Co-immunoprecipitation, autophagy inhibitors, siRNA, calcium imaging in hepatocytes under PFOS exposure\",\n      \"pmids\": [\"35192817\"],\n      \"confidence\": \"Medium\",\n      \"gaps\": [\"Stoichiometry and direct versus indirect interactions within the complex not established\", \"Generalizability beyond PFOS-induced model uncertain\"]\n    },\n    {\n      \"year\": 2022,\n      \"claim\": \"Demonstrating that astrocytic IP3R2-mediated calcium is required for experience-dependent Hebbian LTD — and that its absence switches the same stimulation to LTP via a distinct NMDAR signaling mode — revealed that astrocytic IP3R2 calcium acts as a gatekeeper of synaptic plasticity polarity.\",\n      \"evidence\": \"IP3R2 knockout mice, in vivo/ex vivo electrophysiology in barrel cortex, BAPTA-mediated acute astrocyte calcium chelation, pharmacological dissection\",\n      \"pmids\": [\"36090792\"],\n      \"confidence\": \"Medium\",\n      \"gaps\": [\"Gliotransmitter identity mediating the plasticity switch not identified\", \"Circuit-level consequences of altered plasticity polarity not tested\"]\n    },\n    {\n      \"year\": 2024,\n      \"claim\": \"Linking IP3R2 to NLRP3/Caspase-1/GSDMD pyroptosis in cardiomyocytes and showing mutual regulation with ER stress expanded the downstream effector repertoire of IP3R2-mediated calcium from senescence/apoptosis to inflammatory cell death.\",\n      \"evidence\": \"siRNA and xestospongin C inhibition of IP3R2, western blot for pyroptosis markers, rat LPS model\",\n      \"pmids\": [\"38378646\"],\n      \"confidence\": \"Medium\",\n      \"gaps\": [\"Whether IP3R2 directly or indirectly activates NLRP3 not distinguished\", \"Specificity relative to IP3R1/3 in cardiomyocytes not fully tested\"]\n    },\n    {\n      \"year\": 2024,\n      \"claim\": \"Demonstrating that oligodendrocyte-specific Itpr2 deletion impairs OPC proliferation through the MAPK/ERK–CDK6/cyclin D1 axis and causes anxiety/depressive behaviors provided a mechanistic pathway from IP3R2 calcium to cell cycle control and behavioral phenotype.\",\n      \"evidence\": \"OL-specific Itpr2 conditional knockout, transcriptomics, MAPK/ERK inhibitor rescue, behavioral testing\",\n      \"pmids\": [\"38476116\"],\n      \"confidence\": \"Medium\",\n      \"gaps\": [\"Direct calcium sensor linking IP3R2 flux to ERK activation not identified\", \"Whether behavioral phenotype is reversible with remyelination not tested\"]\n    },\n    {\n      \"year\": 2025,\n      \"claim\": \"Identification of FMO2 and FUNDC1 as distinct IP3R2-binding partners at MAMs — FMO2 maintaining the IP3R2–Grp75–VDAC1 complex for physiological bioenergetics and FUNDC1 regulating IP3R2 stability through ubiquitination — expanded the molecular inventory controlling IP3R2-dependent mitochondrial calcium transfer in cardiomyocytes.\",\n      \"evidence\": \"Co-immunoprecipitation, MAM-targeted mass spectrometry, AAV9 rescue in cardiac hypertrophy model (FMO2); Co-IP, ubiquitination assay, Mito Tempo rescue (FUNDC1)\",\n      \"pmids\": [\"40489543\", \"40451326\"],\n      \"confidence\": \"Medium\",\n      \"gaps\": [\"Whether FMO2 and FUNDC1 compete for the same IP3R2 binding site unknown\", \"E3 ligase mediating IP3R2 ubiquitination upon FUNDC1 loss not identified\", \"Reciprocal validation across independent labs pending\"]\n    },\n    {\n      \"year\": 2025,\n      \"claim\": \"In vivo dual-color imaging in awake Itpr2 knockout mice showed that IP3R2-dependent astrocytic calcium transients are required for locomotion-evoked neuronal modulation, establishing a non-synaptic glial mechanism for state-dependent circuit modulation.\",\n      \"evidence\": \"Simultaneous two-photon calcium imaging of astrocytes and neurons in somatosensory cortex of behaving Itpr2-/- mice\",\n      \"pmids\": [\"40710356\"],\n      \"confidence\": \"Medium\",\n      \"gaps\": [\"Molecular mediator released by astrocytes to modulate neurons not identified\", \"Whether other behavioral states engage the same mechanism not tested\"]\n    },\n    {\n      \"year\": null,\n      \"claim\": \"Critical open questions include: the high-resolution structure of full-length IP3R2 and the gating mechanism distinguishing it from IP3R1/3; the identity of gliotransmitters downstream of astrocytic IP3R2 calcium that control synaptic plasticity; the E3 ubiquitin ligase(s) governing IP3R2 turnover; and whether the MAM-structural and channel-gating functions of IP3R2 are separable in senescence and cell death pathways.\",\n      \"evidence\": \"\",\n      \"pmids\": [],\n      \"confidence\": \"Low\",\n      \"gaps\": [\"No full-length IP3R2 cryo-EM structure published\", \"Gliotransmitter identity downstream of IP3R2 unknown\", \"Separability of MAM tethering versus calcium flux functions unresolved\"]\n    }\n  ],\n  \"mechanism_profile\": {\n    \"molecular_activity\": [\n      {\"term_id\": \"GO:0005215\", \"supporting_discovery_ids\": [0, 2, 3, 6, 9]},\n      {\"term_id\": \"GO:0008289\", \"supporting_discovery_ids\": [6]}\n    ],\n    \"localization\": [\n      {\"term_id\": \"GO:0005783\", \"supporting_discovery_ids\": [0, 1, 5, 6, 8, 14, 15, 17]},\n      {\"term_id\": \"GO:0005739\", \"supporting_discovery_ids\": [0, 1, 8, 14, 15, 17]}\n    ],\n    \"pathway\": [\n      {\"term_id\": \"R-HSA-162582\", \"supporting_discovery_ids\": [0, 2, 3, 9, 12, 13]},\n      {\"term_id\": \"R-HSA-5357801\", \"supporting_discovery_ids\": [2, 9, 17]},\n      {\"term_id\": \"R-HSA-8953897\", \"supporting_discovery_ids\": [0, 1, 10]},\n      {\"term_id\": \"R-HSA-112316\", \"supporting_discovery_ids\": [3, 13, 19]},\n      {\"term_id\": \"R-HSA-382551\", \"supporting_discovery_ids\": [0, 8, 14, 15]}\n    ],\n    \"complexes\": [\n      \"IP3R2-Grp75-VDAC1 (MAM tethering complex)\",\n      \"IP3R2-VDAC1-MICU1\",\n      \"IP3R2-Bcl-2\"\n    ],\n    \"partners\": [\n      \"GRP75\",\n      \"VDAC1\",\n      \"BCL2\",\n      \"FUNDC1\",\n      \"FMO2\",\n      \"ERP44\",\n      \"ERP29\",\n      \"MICU1\"\n    ],\n    \"other_free_text\": []\n  }\n}\n```"}