Cellular

The repertoire of cellular BCL-2 family proteins contains several groups of paralogs. Below are listed the well-annotated groups. All data listed in the tables refers to human proteins unless otherwise noted.

BCL-2-like

Gene name	Protein name	Synonyms	Primary function	BCL2DB acc.	Reference
BCL-2	Bcl-2	-	inhibitor	P10415	Tsujimoto et al.,1984
BCL2L1	Bcl-xL	Bcl2l1	inhibitor	Q07817	Boise et al., 1993
BCL2L2	Bcl-w	Bcl2l2	inhibitor	Q92843	Gibson et al., 1996
MCL-1	Mcl-1	Bcl2l3	inhibitor	Q07820	Kozopas et al., 1993
BCL2L10	Bcl2l10	Bcl-B, Nrh, Nr-13, Diva, Boo	inhibitor	Q9HD36	Aouacheria et al., 2001
BCL2A1	Bfl1	Bcl2a1, Bcl2l5	inhibitor	Q16548	Lin et al., 1993

BAX-like

Gene name	Protein name	Synonyms	Primary function	BCL2DB acc.	Reference
BAX	Bax	Bcl2l4	promoter	Q07812	Oltvai et al., 1993
BAK1	Bak1	Bcl2l7	promoter	Q16611	Chittenden et al., 1995
BOK	Bok	Bcl2l9, Mtd	promoter	Q9UMX3	Inohara et al., 1998
BCL-WAV	Bcl-WAV	-	promoter	D2Y5Q2	Prudent et al., 2013

BID-like

Gene name	Protein name	Synonyms	Primary function	BCL2DB acc.	Reference
BID	Bid	Bid	promoter	P55957	Wang et al., 1996
BCL2L12	Bcl2l12	Bpr	promoter	Q9HB09	Scorilas et al., 2001
BCL2L13	Bcl2l13	Bcl-rambo, Mil1	promoter	Q9BXK5	Kataoka et al., 2001
BCL2L14	Bcl2l14	Bcl-G	promoter	Q9BZR8	Guo et al., 2001
BCL2L15	Bcl2l15	Bfk	promoter	Q5TBC7	Coultas et al., 2003

Other cellular homologs

Gene name	Protein name	Synonyms	Primary function	BCL2DB acc.	Reference
ced-9	CED-9	-	inhibitor	P41958	Hengartner et al., 1994
Buffy	BUFFY	Drob-2, dBorg-2	inhibitor	Q8T8Y5	Brachmann et al., 2000
debcl	Debcl	Drob-1, dBorg-1, dBok	promoter	Q9V9C8	Colussi et al., 2000
bhp2	BHP2	-	???	Q967D2	Wiens et al., 2001