| Modification Notes |
Bcl-6, a transcriptional repressor, can promote or inhibit apoptosis depending on the cell type and also plays an important role in normal immune responses. Bcl-6 negatively regulates NF˚B expression, thereby inhibiting NF˚B-mediated cellular functions and is frequently found to be deregulated in non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. BCoR protein family members associate with histone deacetylases (HDACs) to transcriptionally repress Bcl-6. BCORL2 (BCL-6 corepressor-like protein 2) is a 145 amino acid protein that is a homolog of BCoR and, by similarity, most likely functions to regulate the transcription of Bcl-6 by inhibiting gene expression when recruited to promoter regions. |