Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

BAD

Bcl2-associated agonist of cell death

Also known as: BAD_HUMAN, BBC2, BCL2L8

Cross-references: UniProt · Ensembl · Human Protein Atlas · GeneCards · NCBI Gene

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q92934
Gene
BAD
Ensembl
ENSG00000002330
Chromosome
11
Canonical length
168 aa
Protein class
Cancer-related genes, Predicted intracellular proteins, RAS pathway related proteins
Subcellular location
Mitochondria,Mid piece,Principal piece,End piece

OverviewNCBI Gene

The protein encoded by this gene is a member of the BCL-2 family. BCL-2 family members are known to be regulators of programmed cell death. This protein positively regulates cell apoptosis by forming heterodimers with BCL-xL (B-cell lymphoma-extra large) and BCL-2, and reversing their death repressor activity. Proapoptotic activity of this protein is regulated through its phosphorylation. Protein kinases AKT and MAP kinase, as well as protein phosphatase calcineurin were found to be involved in the regulation of this protein. Alternative splicing of this gene results in two transcript variants which encode the same isoform. [provided by RefSeq, Dec 2019]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

168 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q92934|BAD
     1  MFQIPEFEPS EQEDSSSAER GLGPSPAGDG PSGSGKHHRQ APGLLWDASH QQEQPTSSSH
    61  HGGAGAVEIR SRHSSYPAGT EDDEGMGEEP SPFRGRSRSA PPNLWAAQRY GRELRRMSDE
   121  FVDSFKKGLP RPKSAGTATQ MRQSSSWTRV FQSWWDRNLG RGSSAPSQ

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against BAD can act on the native protein depends on physical access: surface and secreted proteins are reachable by circulating antibodies, intracellular proteins usually are not.

Antibody reachability
Other membrane
Secreted
No
Transmembrane segments
0
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.67
Highest tissue expression
138 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • cerebral cortex: 138 nTPM
  • amygdala: 135 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 127 nTPM
  • midbrain: 115 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 114 nTPM
  • heart muscle: 111 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • esophageal apical cells: 357 nCPM
  • syncytiotrophoblasts: 286 nCPM
  • extravillous trophoblasts: 259 nCPM
  • decidual stromal cells: 195 nCPM
  • migrating cytotrophoblasts: 194 nCPM
  • cytotrophoblasts: 190 nCPM

Immune cell

  • eosinophil: 103 nTPM
  • plasmacytoid DC: 94 nTPM
  • neutrophil: 93 nTPM
  • basophil: 89 nTPM
  • T-reg: 72 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 70 nTPM

Brain region

  • thalamus: 89 nTPM
  • amygdala: 77 nTPM
  • midbrain: 75 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 75 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 74 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 73 nTPM

Genetic constraint and essentialitygnomAD · DepMap

Does the body need this protein intact? Low LOEUF or a strong DepMap dependency means loss or blockade of the protein is likely to be felt.

gnomAD LOEUF (loss-of-function intolerance)
1.53
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
-0.55
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.15
DepMap dependency class
selective

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 4% of surveyed tumor types (aggregate summary; per-cohort expression, alteration, and survival load in the interactive view).

OntologyGO

Biological processes

Molecular functions

Cellular components

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

  • Bcl2-associated agonist of cell death
  • Pro-apoptotic Bcl-2 protein, BAD

KeywordsUniProt

InteractionsUniProt · HPA

Protein binding partners of BAD in the human serome: UniProt-annotated complex subunits plus reported interactors. Each links to its own Seroatlas record.

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

Seroatlas reads BAD as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against BAD could matter depends on whether native BAD is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

BAD is annotated as predominantly intracellular. Intracellular proteins are common autoantibody markers, becoming visible to the immune system after cell injury or altered processing, but are usually markers of disease rather than direct drivers.

Annotation status

The present source text does not explicitly label BAD as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/BAD. Study-independent annotations aggregated from UniProt, Human Protein Atlas, PubMed, IEDB, Pfam, InterPro, Gene Ontology, AlphaFold, gnomAD, DepMap, ClinVar, TCGA. Catalog release seroatlas-reviewed-human-uniprot-20260313.

Seroatlas is the reference for exploring autoantibody and antibody serology at the human-protein level: the autoreactome and human serome, multiplex serology (HuProt, HuScan, VirScan, PhIP-Seq).

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