Rabbitpolyclonalantibody
PooledSerum- Size:
- 100µl
- Formulation:
- AffinityPurifiedfromPooledSerum
- Specificity:
- Rat,Mouse,Human,Xenopus
- Applications:
- WB1:1000
- Species:
- Rabbit
- MolecularReference:
- ~83kDa
- CiteThisAntibody:
- PhosphoSolutionsCat#p120-3337,RRID:AB_2492049
Antigen/Purification:Collapse
Theantigenisaphosphopeptidecorrespondingtoaminoacidresiduessurroundingthephospho-Ser33,37ofhumanβ-catenin.
Theantibodyispreparedfrompooledrabbitserumbyaffinitypurificationviasequentialchromatographyonphospho-anddephospho-peptideaffinitycolumns.
BIOLOGicalSignificance:Collapse
β-cateninisacentralcomponentofthecadherincelladhesioncomplexandplaysanessentialroleinneuraldevelopmentintheWingless/Wntsignalingpathway(DingandDale,2002;Polakis,2000).Theroleofβ-cateninintheseprocessesisthoughtregulatedbythesequentialphosphorylationofSer29Ser33,Ser37andThr41byglycogensynthasekinase3β(GSK3β)(Liuetal.,2002).Thishyperphosphorylationpromotestheubiquitylationandtargeteddestructionofβ-catenin.Mutationsincomponentsofthisphosphorylationregulatedprocessthatpreventβ-cateninhyperphosphorylationbyGSK3βarestronglyassociatedwithcancers(Wangetal.,2003;Polakis,2000;Liuetal.,2002).
Storage
100µlin10mMHEPES(pH7.5),150mMNaCl,100µgBSApermland50%glycerol.Adequateamountofmaterialtoconduct10-miniWesternBlots.
Forlongtermstorage–20°Cisrecommended.Stableat–20°Cforatleast1year.
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