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BAK1 BCL2 antagonist/killer 1

ENSG00000030110 · protein coding · Open Targets profile

Plays a role in the mitochondrial apoptotic process. Upon arrival of cell death signals, promotes mitochondrial outer membrane (MOM) permeabilization by oligomerizing to form pores within the MOM. This releases apoptogenic factors into the cytosol, including cytochrome c, promoting the activation of caspase 9 which in turn processes and activates the effector caspases. .

In 8 of 15 cancers, the evidence for BAK1 comes mainly from inherited variants

Each row is a cancer, strongest overall evidence first. The two dots show how strong the inherited (germline) and tumour-mutation (somatic) evidence is; the line between them is the gap.

Inherited (germline) variantsMutations in tumours (somatic)
00.250.50.751B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemiaB-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemiaB-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia: germline 0.75B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemiaB-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemiaB-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia: germline 0.70prostate carcinomaprostate carcinomaprostate carcinoma: germline 0.56Hodgkins lymphomaHodgkins lymphomaHodgkins lymphoma: germline 0.54plasma cell myelomaplasma cell myelomaplasma cell myeloma: germline 0.54testicular germ cell tumortesticular germ cell tumortesticular germ cell tumor: germline 0.47testicular cancertesticular cancertesticular cancer: germline 0.46intracranial germ cell tumorintracranial germ cell tumorintracranial germ cell tumor: germline 0.25breast cancerbreast cancerbreast carcinomabreast carcinomahepatocellular carcinomahepatocellular carcinomanon-small cell lung carcinomanon-small cell lung carcinomahead and neck squamous cell carcinomahead and neck squamous cell carcinomalung carcinomalung carcinomalung cancerlung cancer

Scores run from 0 (no evidence) to 1 (strongest). A missing dot at 0 means Open Targets holds no evidence of that kind. Source: Open Targets Platform, fetched live.

Tractability

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Structure with Ligand, High-Quality Ligand
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UniProt SigP or TMHMM
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gnomAD loss of function constraint: o/e 0.768280029296875 (upper bound 1.1273000240325928). Low values mean loss of function is poorly tolerated, a safety flag for inhibition.

Who runs trials of these drugs

No named investigators on registry trials of BAK1's approved or late-stage drugs in the last three years.

No terminated, withdrawn or suspended trials of BAK1's drugs are registered

All 0 drugs and clinical candidates as a table

Each drug, stage and indication links to its Open Targets record, where the trials and approvals behind it are listed. Salt forms (for example a mesylate) are listed as Open Targets records them, as separate entries.

DrugTypeHighest stageIndicationsSource records
No drugs or clinical candidates recorded.