Protein / target

B-cell antigen receptor complex-associated protein beta chain

CD79BP40259Homo sapiensSwiss-Prot
Clinically validated
Therapeutic maturity
1
Approved medicines
30
Clinical trials
Small-molecule tractable
Druggability
High-Quality Pocket

Protein at a glance

Biological role

Transmembrane signaling receptor activity

Primary system

Immune system

Strongest disease association

agammaglobulinemia

Genetic literature evidence · score 0.76

Therapeutic maturity

Clinically validated target

1 approved medicine against this target

Druggability

Small molecule

Open Targets tractability · High-Quality Pocket

Clinical development

1 approved

30 linked trials

Derived from structured UniProt, Open Targets and literature data on this page.

Protein profile

UniProt 2026_02

Canonical identity and biological annotation from UniProt.

Function

Required in cooperation with CD79A for initiation of the signal transduction cascade activated by the B-cell antigen receptor complex (BCR) which leads to internalization of the complex, trafficking to late endosomes and antigen presentation. Enhances phosphorylation of CD79A, possibly by recruiting kinases which phosphorylate CD79A or by recruiting proteins which bind to CD79A and protect it from dephosphorylation

Subcellular location

Cell membrane
Domains and Gene Ontology detail (14)

Domains & features

Ig-like V-typeITAM

Gene Ontology

  • CB cell receptor complex
  • Cexternal side of plasma membrane
  • Cextracellular exosome
  • CIgM B cell receptor complex
  • Cplasma membrane
  • Fidentical protein binding
  • Ftransmembrane signaling receptor activity
  • Padaptive immune response
  • PB cell differentiation
  • PB cell receptor signaling pathway
  • Pimmune response
  • Psignal transduction

229 aa · 26 kDa · 3 isoforms

Biological roles

Reactome v97

What this protein does, drawn together from its UniProt function, Gene Ontology terms and Reactome pathways.

Immune signallingUniProt · GO · ReactomeKinase signallingUniProt
View supporting evidence

Immune signalling

  • ·Required in cooperation with CD79A for initiation of the signal transduction cascade act…
  • ·B cell receptor complex
  • ·IgM B cell receptor complex
  • ·adaptive immune response

Kinase signalling

  • ·Required in cooperation with CD79A for initiation of the signal transduction cascade act…
View underlying pathways (4)

Concepts derived from UniProt GO Reactome — each badge above shows which sources supported that role.

Interaction neighbourhood

STRING v12.0

Proteins with the strongest functional or physical association. Node size and line weight reflect STRING confidence; hover or select a partner to inspect one association.

CD79ALYNSYKIGLL1VPREB1CD19CXCL9IGLL5BTKIGHDCD79B

10 strongest partners — larger node and heavier line mean higher confidence

Functional and physical associations from STRING v12.0. Only associations with this protein are drawn — partner-to-partner links are not part of this evidence.

Drugs targeting this protein

1

Whether each drug engages this protein directly or through a complex, and how many other targets are recorded for it. Direct binders with few recorded targets are listed first.

polatuzumab vedotin
ApprovedBinding agent

B-cell antigen receptor complex-associated protein beta chain binding agent

Appears in clinical studies involving diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma, neoplasm

Direct interaction with this protein · 1 of 16 recorded protein targets — broad pharmacology

ChEMBL mechanism, action type and target identity. Open Targets clinical status and indications.

Translational evidence

Open Targets 26

Why this target matters therapeutically — disease associations, drugs in development, tractability and safety, from Open Targets.

Strongest genetic associations

Human genetic evidence — the most direct causal link between this target and a disease.

agammaglobulinemia0.76

Genetic literature · overall 0.47

isolated agammaglobulinemia0.75

Genetic · overall 0.64

autosomal agammaglobulinemia0.61

Genetic · overall 0.47

neoplasm0.19

Genetic · overall 0.41

Highest-confidence therapeutic associations

Diseases where a drug acting on this target has already reached clinical development.

diffuse large B-cell lymphoma0.94

Clinical · overall 0.75

B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma0.65

Clinical · overall 0.44

diffuse large B-cell lymphoma of the central nervous system0.12

Clinical · overall 0.39

Highest overall evidence

Remaining associations by Open Targets' aggregated evidence score.

primary central nervous system lymphoma0.38

Somatic mutation

breast diffuse large B-cell lymphoma0.37

Somatic mutation

lymphoid neoplasm0.37

Somatic mutation

Show all associations
diffuse large B-cell lymphoma0.75
isolated agammaglobulinemia0.64
autosomal agammaglobulinemia0.47
agammaglobulinemia0.47
B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma0.44
neoplasm0.41
diffuse large B-cell lymphoma of the central nervous system0.39
primary central nervous system lymphoma0.38
breast diffuse large B-cell lymphoma0.37
lymphoid neoplasm0.37

Open Targets ranks 308 associations for this target and we store the top 10 by aggregated score. The long tail is largely literature co-mention and RNA-expression evidence, not evidence that this target drives those diseases.

Known drugs · 1 total

POLATUZUMAB VEDOTINApproval

diffuse large B-cell lymphoma · diffuse large B-cell lymphoma · B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma

Tractability

SM · High-Quality PocketAB · GO CC high confAB · UniProt loc med confAB · UniProt SigP or TMHMMAB · Human Protein Atlas locPR · Database UbiquitinationPR · Half-life DataOC · Approved Drug

Clinical trials

30

Trials of drugs that target this protein — reached indirectly through those drugs, so a trial listed here studies the drug, not the protein.

ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING · via polatuzumab vedotin · NCT04594798

Show remaining trials (24)

ClinicalTrials.gov via the drug-target graph.

Forefront confidence

Synthesis

Our own weighting of the evidence behind each disease association. Human genetics and clinical evidence count for most; literature co-mention counts for little, because two entities sharing an abstract is not evidence that one drives the other.

diffuse large B-cell lymphomaWell supported
0.86
agreement 0.740.98
Clinical55%Somatic mutation39%Literature6%

Open Targets aggregate 0.75 · 3 independent evidence families

isolated agammaglobulinemiaWell supported
0.80
agreement 0.680.92
Genetic79%Animal model21%Literature0%Genetic literaturedup

Open Targets aggregate 0.64 · 3 independent evidence families · 1 not counted as duplicate

autosomal agammaglobulinemiaModerately supported
0.69
agreement 0.560.81
Genetic75%Animal model25%Genetic literaturedup

Open Targets aggregate 0.47 · 2 independent evidence families · 1 not counted as duplicate

neoplasmModerately supported
0.62
agreement 0.510.72
Clinical59%Genetic25%Literature16%

Open Targets aggregate 0.41 · 3 independent evidence families

agammaglobulinemiaModerately supported
0.61
agreement 0.460.77
Genetic literature97%Literature3%

Open Targets aggregate 0.47 · 2 independent evidence families

The evidence agreement range shows how closely the independent evidence families agree — it is not a statistical confidence interval, and nothing here is fitted to outcome data. Derived from Open Targets evidence types under Forefront weighting; the underlying per-type scores are shown above so the calculation can be checked.

What's happening now

3

Recent activity around this target, drawn from one canonical event stream. Every item is reached through a drug that targets this protein, so each event is news about that drug rather than about the protein directly.

  1. Trial status changed2026-07-17

    A Phase 1b Open-Label Study to Evaluate the Safety and Anti-cancer Activity of Loncastuximab Tesirine in Combination With Other Anti-cancer Agents in Patients With Relapsed or Refractory B-cell Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (LOTIS-7)

    Status changed to Active, not recruiting · ClinicalTrials.gov · via polatuzumab vedotin

  2. New publication2021-12-14
    Polatuzumab Vedotin in Previously Untreated Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma.

    The New England journal of medicine · 2022 · 677 citations · Europe PMC · via polatuzumab vedotin

  3. Regulatory approval2020-01-16

    Approval: Polivy (EMA)

    ema · regulatory · ema · via polatuzumab vedotin

Objective event titles are shown unmodified; the event kind and significance line are derived from structured fields. Forefront AttentionEvent stream aggregating Europe PMC Regulatory filings ClinicalTrials.gov.