{"entity":{"id":"bik","kind":"target","name":"BIK","aka":["BCL2 interacting killer","Bcl-2-interacting killer"],"tldr":"BIK (Bcl-2-interacting killer) is a gene. In the public catalogues the evidence so far is association rather than a proven role. Tied to Prostate cancer.","summary":"Accelerates programmed cell death. Association to the apoptosis repressors Bcl-X(L), BHRF1, Bcl-2 or its adenovirus homolog E1B 19k protein suppresses this death-promoting activity. Does not interact with BAX.\n\nOpen Targets scores its association with cancer at 0.52 (direct and indirect evidence; datatypes literature 0.89, genetic association 0.64).","asOf":"2026-09-23","links":[{"label":"HGNC HGNC:1051","url":"https://www.genenames.org/data/gene-symbol-report/#!/hgnc_id/HGNC:1051"},{"label":"UniProt Q13323","url":"https://www.uniprot.org/uniprotkb/Q13323/entry"},{"label":"NCBI Gene 638","url":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/638"},{"label":"Ensembl ENSG00000100290","url":"https://www.ensembl.org/Homo_sapiens/Gene/Summary?g=ENSG00000100290"}],"tags":["cancer-genes-wave"],"related":["open-targets"],"cancers":["prostate"],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":[],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":["Written by scripts/fetch-cancer-genes.ts from CIViC, Open Targets, IntOGen, HGNC and UniProt; the function text is UniProt's, condensed and in UK spelling. Roles: none stated by the sources. Evidence tier \"association-only\" is the strongest of those signals.","Prevalence not recorded: none of the sources gives a positivity rate."],"provenance":{"editedBy":"scripts/fetch-cancer-genes.ts (CIViC, Open Targets, IntOGen, HGNC, UniProt)","editedOn":"2026-09-23"},"symbol":"BIK","role":[],"evidenceTier":"association-only","sources":[{"label":"HGNC HGNC:1051","url":"https://www.genenames.org/data/gene-symbol-report/#!/hgnc_id/HGNC:1051","note":"approved symbol, name, aliases, locus and cross-references (hgnc_complete_set.txt)"},{"label":"UniProt Q13323","url":"https://www.uniprot.org/uniprotkb/Q13323/entry","note":"protein name, function text, keywords and locations (REST API)"},{"label":"Open Targets ENSG00000100290","url":"https://platform.opentargets.org/target/ENSG00000100290/associations","note":"association with cancer (MONDO_0004992) 0.52; per-cancer scores at or above 0.5: prostate cancer 0.50 (GraphQL API, CC0)"}],"hgnc":"HGNC:1051","ensembl":"ENSG00000100290","uniprot":"Q13323","entrez":"638","biology":"Accelerates programmed cell death. Association to the apoptosis repressors Bcl-X(L), BHRF1, Bcl-2 or its adenovirus homolog E1B 19k protein suppresses this death-promoting activity. Does not interact with BAX. Location: Endomembrane system; Mitochondrion membrane (UniProt). Locus 22q13.2 (HGNC).","whereFound":["Prostate cancer: Open Targets association 0.50 with prostate cancer (MONDO_0008315)"],"targetClass":"other","prevalence":[]},"route":"/targets/bik/","neighbours":{"collection":[{"id":"open-targets","kind":"collection","name":"Open Targets Platform","route":"/collections/open-targets/"}],"cancer":[{"id":"prostate","kind":"cancer","name":"Prostate cancer","route":"/cancers/prostate/"}]}}