Bcl-2 Products

Description

The Bcl-2 family of proteins regulate apoptosis by controlling mitochondrial permeability and release of cytochrome c. Bcl-2 is an anti-apoptotic protein that resides in the outer mitochondrial wall and inhibits release of cytochrome c (1). Over-expression of Bcl-2 has been shown to promote cell survival by suppressing apoptosis. It has been documented that bcl-2 becomes deregulated in tumor cells as a result of translocation into the immunoglobulin heavy-chain locus and is therefore activated in B cell malignancies (2). It has also been shown that post-translational modification of Bcl-2, phosphorylation at serine 70, may be required to render its full and/or enhanced anti-apoptotic effect (3, 4).

Bioinformatics

Entrez	12043 Mouse 24224 Rat 596 Human
Uniprot	AAH27258 Human AAH27258.1 Human NM_000633 Human NP_000624 Human P10415 Human P10415 Human P10417 Mouse
Product By Gene ID	596
Alternate Names	apoptosis regulator Bcl-2 B-cell CLL/lymphoma 2 Bcl-2

Research Areas for Bcl-2

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Altered expression of BCL2 in cancer Similar to other cell processes, the balance between cell survival and cell death is an important equilibrium that when altered expression of genes can lead to a variety of disease.  For example, too little cell death can promote cell overgrowth a...    Read more.

Key Targets in Apoptosis, Necroptosis, and Autophagy Cell death/recycling pathways such as apoptosis, necroptosis, and autophagy are an integral part of the growth, development, homeostasis as well as the pathophysiology in the life of living organisms. These signaling pathways are highly regulated and ...    Read more.

Autophagy independent roles of the core ATG proteins By Christina Towers, PhD. Autophagy and ATG ProteinsAutophagy is a nutrient recycling process that cells use to fuel metabolism, particularly in response to nutrient deprivation.  It is critical for removal of dam...    Read more.

Losing memory: Toxicity from mutant APP and amyloid beta explain the hippocampal neuronal damage in Alzheimer's disease  By Jamshed Arslan Pharm.D.  Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an irreversible brain disorder that destroys memory and thinking skills. The telltale signs of AD brains are extracellular deposits of amy...    Read more.

BNIP3 - a regulator of mitochondrial autophagy and cell death Bcl-2 nineteen-kilodalton interacting protein 3 (BNIP3) is a pro-apoptotic BH3-only protein. BNIP3 localizes to the mitochondrial membrane where it plays a key role in mitochondrial autophagy and cell death pathways. Similar to other Bcl-2 family m...    Read more.

Beclin 1 - A Key Regulator of Autophagosome Formation The Beclin 1 protein is a central regulator of autophagy in mammalian cells. Autophagy is an essential process used to maintain cellular homeostasis by degrading and recycling cellular components such as damaged or worn out organelles and macromole...    Read more.

Bcl-2 - an antiapoptotic protein with an important role in cancer cell survival B-cell lymphoma 2 (Bcl-2) protein is an oncogene that normally acts as an apoptotic inhibitor and localizes to the mitochondrial membrane where it prevents the release of cytochrome c. The Bcl-2 protein family consists of over 20 proteins each co...    Read more.

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BAG3 - Hsp70 is my friend! The BAG proteins are a large family of chaperone regulators governing a wide range of cell processes such as proliferation, survival, stress response, tumorigenesis, neuronal differentiation, growth arrest and apoptosis as reviewed in Takayama et al1....    Read more.

p53 - Investigating an important tumor suppressor p53 is a tumor suppressor that has a central role in regulating cell cycle arrest, DNA repair, and apoptosis. p53 is widely studied for its role in cancer and is mutated or altered in more than half of all cancers (1). This widespread role in tumor...    Read more.

MAPK8/JNK1 - A multifunctional kinase and drug target for cancer therapeutics The c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) family is a group of regulatory kinases with important functions in cell morphogenesis, inflammation, differentiation, and cell death (1). Aberrant activation of JNK family proteins in cancers has led to interest i...    Read more.

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