BAX and breast carcinoma: In addition, in breast cancer cell lines, the expression of Bcl-2, a representative antiapoptotic Bcl-2 family protein, which associates with and inhibits the expression of Bax, Bak, and other proapoptotic Bcl-2 family proteins, thereby preventing intrinsic mitochondria-dependent caspase-dependent/independent cell death, was decreased following PDT with photofrin, another photosensitizer, or NPe6-PDT [28].