Overview

Location [1]
11q22.2
Protein [2]
Baculoviral IAP repeat-containing protein 2
Synonyms [1]
MIHB, c-IAP1, cIAP1, RNF48, HIAP2, Hiap-2, API1

Baculoviral IAP repeat containing 2 (BIRC2) is a gene that encodes a protein that belongs to a family of proteins that functions in the inhibition of apoptosis by binding to TRAF1 and TRAF2 (tumor necrosis factor receptor-associated factors). Missense, nonsense, and silent mutations are observed in cancers such as endometrial cancer, intestinal cancer, and skin cancer.

BIRC2 is altered in 0.04% of all cancers with high grade ovarian serous adenocarcinoma, colon adenocarcinoma, cervical squamous cell carcinoma, desmoplastic melanoma, and leiomyosarcoma having the greatest prevalence of alterations [3].

BIRC2 GENIE Cases - Top Diseases

The most common alterations in BIRC2 are BIRC2 H269R (0.22%), BIRC2 M181V (0.39%), BIRC2 M237V (0.22%), BIRC2 M277L (0.39%), and BIRC2 N405D (7.69%) [3].

BIRC2 GENIE Cases - Top Alterations

Significance of BIRC2 in Diseases

Cervical Carcinoma +

Cancer +

Adult T-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia +

Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma +

Angioimmunoblastic T-Cell Lymphoma +

Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma +

Enteropathy-Associated T-Cell Lymphoma +

Follicular T-Cell Lymphoma +

Head And Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma +

Hepatosplenic T-Cell Lymphoma +

Monomorphic Epitheliotropic Intestinal T-Cell Lymphoma +

Mycosis Fungoides +

Nasal Type Extranodal NK/T-Cell Lymphoma +

Nodal Peripheral T-Cell Lymphoma With TFH Phenotype +

Peripheral T-Cell Lymphoma +

Peripheral T-Cell Lymphoma, Not Otherwise Specified +

Primary Cutaneous T-Cell Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma +

Sezary Syndrome +

Subcutaneous Panniculitis-Like T-Cell Lymphoma +

References

1. Hart R and Prlic A. Universal Transcript Archive Repository. Version uta_20180821. San Francisco CA: Github;2015. https://github.com/biocommons/uta

2. The UniProt Consortium. UniProt: a worldwide hub of protein knowledge. Nucleic Acids Research. 2019;47:D506-D515.

3. The AACR Project GENIE Consortium. AACR Project GENIE: powering precision medicine through an international consortium. Cancer Discovery. 2017;7(8):818-831. Dataset Version 8. This dataset does not represent the totality of the genetic landscape; see paper for more information.

4. All assertions and clinical trial landscape data are curated from primary sources. You can read more about the curation process here.