Bcr Proteins

Protein Information

A reciprocal translocation between chromosomes 22 and 9 produces the Philadelphia chromosome, which is often found in patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia. The chromosome 22 breakpoint for this translocation is located within the BCR gene. The translocation produces a fusion protein which is encoded by sequence from both BCR and ABL, the gene at the chromosome 9 breakpoint. Although the BCR-ABL fusion protein has been extensively studied, the function of the normal BCR gene product is not clear. The protein has serine/threonine kinase activity and is a GTPase-activating protein for p21rac. Two transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene.

Synonyms

5133400C09Rik; ABL; AI561783; AI853148; ALL; Bcr; BCR activator of RhoGEF and GTPase; BCR protein; BCR, RhoGEF and GTPase activating protein; bcr/abl; BCR/FGFR1 chimera protein; BCR1; breakpoint cluster region; breakpoint cluster region homolog; breakpoint cluster region protein; c-ABL; c-abl oncogene 1; CML; D22S11; D22S662; EC 2.7.11.1; FGFR1/BCR chimera protein; JTK7; Kiaa3017; mKIAA3017; p150; PHL; Renal carcinoma antigen NY-REN-26; RP11-83J21.1; v-abl