The present invention provides a family of BAG-1 related proteins from
humans (BAG-1L, BAG-1, BAG-2, BAG-3, BAG-4 and BAG-5), the invertebrate
C. elegans (BAG-1, BAG-2) and the fission yeast S. pombe (BAG-1A, BAG-1B)
and the nucleic acid molecules that encode them.