Background: Apoptosis is related to many diseases including cancer. Cell death signals are transduced by death domain (DD) and caspase recruitment domain (CARD) containing molecules and a caspase family of proteases. CARD containing cell death regulators include ARC, RAIDD, Apaf-1, caspase-9, and caspase-2. A novel CARD containing protein was recently identified by several groups and designated Bcl10, CIPER, mE10, CARMEN, CLAP (1-6). Bcl10 is a cellular homolog of the equine herpesvirus-2 E-10 gene. Overexpression of Bcl10 induces JNK, p38, and NF- B activation (1,2,4,6). Bcl10 interacts with caspase-9 and enhances pro-caspase-9 processing (3) and induces apoptosis through caspase-9 activation (3.6). BCL10 exhibits a variety of mutations in MALT lymphomas and in B and T cell lineage lymphomas indicating that it may be commonly involved in the pathogenesis of human malignancy (1,5). BCL10 is expressed in many human and murine tissues and cell lines (2-6).
Positive Control: Raji whole cell lysate.
Immunogen: Synthetic peptide corresponding to amino acids 5 to 19 of the human BCL-10 protein.
Purification Method: Antigen Immunoaffiinity Purification.
Formulation: Provided in phosphate buffered saline solution containing 0.02% sodium azide as a preservative.
References: 1. Willis, T.G., et al. Bcl10 is involved in t(1;14)(p22;q32) of MALT B cell lymphoma and mutated in multiple tumor types. Cell 1999, 96, 35-45
2. Koseki, T., et al. CIPER, a novel NF kappaB-activating protein containing a caspase recruitment domain with homology to Herpesvirus-2 protein E10. J. Biol. Chem. 1999, 274, 9955-61
3. Yan, M., et al., mE10, a novel caspase recruitment domain-containing proapoptotic molecule. J. Biol. Chem. 1999, 274, 10287-92
4. Thome, M., et al., Equine herpesvirus-2 E10 gene product, but not its cellular homologue, activates NF-kappaB transcription factor and c-Jun N-terminal kinase. J. Biol. Chem. 1999, 274, 9962-8
5. Zhang, Q., et al., Inactivating mutations and overexpression of BCL10, a caspase recruitment domain-containing gene, in MALT lymphoma with t(1;14)(p22;q32). Nat. Genet. 1999, 22, 63-8
6. Srinivasula, S.M., et al., CLAP, a novel caspase recruitment domain-containing protein in the tumor necrosis factor receptor pathway, regulates NF-kappaB activation and apoptosis. J. Biol. Chem. 1999, 274, 17946-54.
UniProt: O95999.
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