Table 1. Characteristics of the included studies.

No.	Publication Title	Authors	Journal	Year	Country of Origin	Citation
1	Novel role of HSP40/DNAJ in the regulation of HIV-1 replication	Urano E, Morikawa Y, Komano J	Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes	2013	Japan	Urano, Morikawa & Komano (2013)
2	Heat shock protein 90AB1 and hyperthermia rescue infectivity of HIV with defective cores	Joshi P, Sloan B, Torbett BE, Stoddart CA	Journal of Virology	2013	USA	Joshi et al. (2013)
3	The microvesicle component of HIV-1 inocula modulates dendritic cell infection and maturation and enhances adhesion to and activation of T lymphocytes	Mercier SK, Donaghy H, Botting RA, Turville SG, Harman AN, Nasr N, Ji H, Kusebauch U, Mendoza L, Shteynberg D, Sandgren K, Simpson RJ, Moritz RL, & Cunningham AL	PLOS ONE Pathogens	2013	Australia	Mercier et al. (2013)
4	Heat shock protein 90 controls HIV-1 reactivation from latency	Anderson I, Low JS, Weston S, Weinberger M, Zhyvoloup A, Labokha AA, Corazza G, Kitson RA, Moody CJ, Marcello A, Fassati A	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences	2014	UK	Anderson et al. (2014)
5	Curcumin increases HSP70 expression in primary rat cortical neuronal apoptosis induced by gp120 V3 loop peptide	Xia C, Cai Y, Li S, Yang J, Xiao G	Neurochemical Research	2015	China	Xia et al. (2015)
6	HSP70 binding protein 1 (HspBP1) suppresses HIV-1 replication by inhibiting NF- κB mediated activation of viral gene expression	Chaudhary P, Khan SZ, Rawat P, Augustine T, Raynes DA, Guerriero V, Mitra D	Nucleic Acids Research	2016	India	Chaudhary et al. (2016)
7	Inhibition of heat shock protein 90 prevents HIV rebound	Joshi P, Maidji E, Stoddart CA	Journal of Biological Chemistry	2016	USA	Joshi, Maidji & Stoddart (2016)
8	Quiescence promotes latent HIV infection and resistance to reactivation from latency with histone deacetylase inhibitors	Painter MM, Zaikos TD, Collins KL	Journal of Virology	2017	USA	Painter, Zaikos & Collins (2017)
9	Cyclin-dependent kinase 7 (CDK7)-mediated phosphorylation of the CDK9 activation loop promotes P-TEFb assembly with Tat and proviral HIV reactivation.	Mbonye U, Wang B, Gokulrangan G, Shi W, Yang S, Karn J	Journal of Biological Chemistry	2018	USA	Mbonye et al. (2018)
10	Interference of DNAJB6/MRJ isoform switch by Morpholino inhibits replication of HIV-1 and RSV	Ko SH, Liau YJ, Chi YH, Lai MJ, Chiang YP, Lu CY, Chang LY, Tarn WY, Huang LM	Molecular Therapy-Nucleic Acids	2019	Taiwan	Ko et al. (2019)
11	Novel role of mortalin in attenuating HIV-1 Tat-mediated astrogliosis	Priyanka, Wadhwa R, Chaudhuri R, Nag TC, Seth P	Journal of Neuroinflammation	2020	India	Priyanka et al. (2020)
12	Comparative analysis of differential gene expression of HSP40 and HSP70 family isoforms during heat stress and HIV-1 infection in T-cells	Chand K, Iyer K, Mitra D	Cell Stress and Chaperones	2021	India	Chand, Iyer & Mitra (2021)
13	Identification of 5′  upstream sequence involved in HSPBP1 gene transcription and its downregulation during HIV-1 infection	Iyer K, Mitra A, Mitra D	Virus Research	2022	India	Iyer, Mitra & Mitra (2022)
14	DNAJB8 facilitates autophagic-lysosomal degradation of viral Vif protein and restricts HIV-1 virion infectivity by rescuing APOBEC3G expression in host cells	Chand K, Barman MK, Ghosh P, Mitra D	FASEB Journal	2023	India	Chand et al. (2023)