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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2007 Dec 6.
Published in final edited form as: Toxicol Pathol. 2007;35(4):495–516. doi: 10.1080/01926230701320337

Table 3.

Intrinsic pathway proteins, abbreviations, and alternate nomenclature.

Abbreviation Protein Name Select Alternate Nomenclature
Smac/DIABLO Second mitochondrial activator of caspases/direct IAP binding protein with low PI None
HtrA2/Omi High-temperature requirement Omi stress regulated endoprotease, serine protease Omi protein A2
IAP Inhibitor of Apoptosis Proteins XIAP, API3, ILP, HILP, HIAP2, cIAP1, API1, MIHB, NFR2-TRAF signaling complex protein
Apaf-1 Apoptotic protease activating factor APAF1
Caspase-9 Cysteinyl aspartic acid-protease-9 ICE-LAP6, Mch6, Apaf-3
AIF Apoptosis Inducing Factor Programmed cell death protein 8, mitochondrial
CAD Caspase-Activated DNAse CAD/CPAN/DFF40
Bcl-2 B-cell lymphoma protein 2 Apoptosis regulator Bcl-2
Bcl-x BCL2 like 1 BCL2 related protein
Bcl-XL BCL2 related protein, long isoform BCL2L protein, long form of Bcl-x
Bcl-XS BCL2 related protein, short isoform
Bcl-w BCL2 like 2 protein Apoptosis regulator BclW
BAG BCL2 associated athanogene BAG family molecular chaperone regulator
Bcl-10 B-cell lymphoma protein 10 mE10, CARMEN, CLAP, CIPER
BAX BCL2 associated X protein Apoptosis regulator BAX
BAK BCL2 antagonist killer 1 BCL2L7, cell death inhibitor 1
BID BH3 interacting domain death agonist p22 BID
BAD BCL2 antagonist of cell death BCL2 binding protein, BCL2L8, BCL2 binding component 6, BBC6, Bcl-XL/Bcl-2 associated death promoter
BIM BCL2 interacting protein BIM BCL2 like 11
BIK BCL2 interacting killer NBK, BP4, BIP1, apoptosis inducing NBK
Blk Bik-like killer protein B lymphoid tyrosine kinase, p55-BLK, MGC10442
Puma BCL2 binding component 3 JFY1, PUMA/JFY1, p53 up-regulated modulator of apoptosis
Noxa Phorbol-12-myristate-13-acetate-induced protein 1 PMA induced protein 1, APR
14-3-3 Tyrosine 3-monooxygenase/tryptophan 5-monooxygenase activation protein 14-3-3 eta, theta, zeta, beta, epsilon, sigma, gamma
Aven Cell death regulator Aven None
Myc Oncogene Myc c-myc, Myc proto-oncogene protein

References

1

Human Protein Reference Database 〈http://www.hprd.org/〉.

2

ExPASy Proteomics Server 〈http://ca.expasy.org/〉.