“…ARTS initiates caspase activation upstream of mitochondria by directly binding and degrading XIAP (X-linked inhibitor of apoptosis) via the ubiquitin proteasome system (UPS) (Gottfried et al, 2004, Garrison et al, 2011. Recently, ARTS was shown to induce ubiquitination and degradation of Bcl-2 by bridging the E3-ubiquitin ligase XIAP to Bcl-2 (Edison et al, 2017). Studies in human and mice have shown that ARTS functions as a tumor suppressor protein (Elhasid et al, 2004, Kissel et al, 2005, Garcia-Fernandez et al, 2010, Fuchs et al, 2013, Koren et al, 2018.…”