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Overexpression of BIRC2 in zebrafish larvae promoted the proliferation of <jats:italic>E. piscicida<\/jats:italic>, leading to a decreased larvae survival. The expression levels of caspases including <jats:italic>casp3<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>casp8<\/jats:italic>, and <jats:italic>casp9<\/jats:italic> were significantly inhibited by BIRC2 overexpression in the case of <jats:italic>E. piscicida<\/jats:italic> infection. Treatment of zebrafish larvae microinjected with BIRC2 with the caspase activator PAC-1 completely blocked the negative regulation of BIRC2 on the <jats:italic>E. piscicida<\/jats:italic> infection, with the reduced inhibition on the <jats:italic>casp3<\/jats:italic> and without inhibition on <jats:italic>casp8<\/jats:italic> and <jats:italic>casp9<\/jats:italic>. In contrast to the regulation of BIRC2 on the caspases, BIRC2 overexpression significantly induced the expression of p53, especially at 24 hpi. In addition to the cytoplasmic p53 expression, BIRC2 overexpression also induced the expression of the nuclear p53 protein. Further analysis demonstrated that BIRC2 could interact and colocalize with p53 in the cytoplasm. The numbers of <jats:italic>E. piscicida<\/jats:italic> in larvae overexpressed with BIRC2 and treated with pifithrin-\u03bc (an inhibitor of mitochondrial p53) or pifithrin-\u03b1 (an inhibitor of p53 transactivation) were lower than those of larvae without pifithrin-\u03bc or pifithrin-\u03b1 treatment. Critically, the p53 inactivators pifithrin-\u03bc and pifithrin-\u03b1 had no significant effect on larval survival, but completely rescued larval survival for zebrafish microinjected with BIRC2 in the case of <jats:italic>E. piscicida<\/jats:italic> infection. 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