BRUCE Proteins

Protein Information

Apoptosis, or programmed cell death, is related to many diseases, such as cancer. Apoptosis is triggered by a variety of stimuli including members in the TNF family and can be prevented by the inhibitor of apoptosis (IAP) proteins. IAP proteins form a conserved gene family that binds to and inhibits cell death proteases. BRUCE, also known as BIRC6, is an IAP family member protein with a BIR (baculoviral inhibition of apoptosis protein repeat) domain and a UBCc (ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme E2, catalytic) domain. BRUCE regulates p53 and the mitochondrial pathway of apoptosis by facilitating the degradation of apoptotic proteins such as Caspase-9 and SMAC by ubiquitination.

Synonyms

A430032G04Rik; A430040A19Rik; AA501170; APOLLON; baculoviral IAP repeat containing 6; baculoviral IAP repeat-containing 6; baculoviral IAP repeat-containing protein 6; baculovirus inhibitor of apoptosis repeat containing ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme; baculovirus inhibitor of apoptosis repeat containing ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme; accccbaculoviral IAP repeat-containing 6; BIR repeat-containing ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme; Birc6; BRUCE; D630005A10Rik; KIAA1289; mKIAA1289; RING-type E3 ubiquitin transferase BIRC6; Ubiquitin-conjugating BIR domain enzyme apollon; ubiquitin-conjugating BIR-domain enzyme apollon