Specifications
Properties
Additional Info
Background
Specifications
| SPECIES REACTIVITY: | Human, Mouse, Rat |
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| TESTED APPLICATIONS: | ELISA, IF, IHC-P, WB |
| APPLICATIONS: | alpha-Tubulin antibody can be used for detection of alpha-Tubulin by Western blot at 1 - 2 μg/ml. Antibody can also be used for Immunohistochemistry starting at 2.5 μg/mL. For immunofluorescence start at 20 μg/mL. |
| USER NOTE: | Optimal dilutions for each application to be determined by the researcher. |
| POSITIVE CONTROL: | 1) Cat. No. 1303 - Human Brain Tissue Lysate |
| PREDICTED MOLECULAR WEIGHT: | Predicted: 50 kDa Observed: 54 kDa |
| SPECIFICITY: | alpha-Tubulin antibody is human, mouse and rat reactive. |
| IMMUNOGEN: | alpha-Tubulin antibody was raised against an 18 amino acid peptide near the carboxy terminus of human alpha-Tubulin |
| HOST SPECIES: | Rabbit |
Properties
| PURIFICATION: | alpha-Tubulin antibody is affinity chromatography purified via peptide column. |
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| PHYSICAL STATE: | Liquid |
| BUFFER: | alpha-Tubulin antibody is supplied in PBS containing 0.02% sodium azide. |
| CONCENTRATION: | 1 mg/mL |
| STORAGE CONDITIONS: | alpha-Tubulin antibody can be stored at 4˚C for three months and -20˚C, stable for up to one year. |
| CLONALITY: | Polyclonal |
| ISOTYPE: | IgG |
| CONJUGATE: | Unconjugated |
Additional Info
| ALTERNATE NAMES: | Tubulin alpha-1A, TUBA1A, TUBA3, LIS3 |
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| ACCESSION NO.: | CAA25855 |
| PROTEIN GI NO.: | 37492 |
| OFFICIAL SYMBOL: | TUBA1A |
| GENE ID: | 7846 |
Background
| BACKGROUND: | alpha-Tubulin belongs to the tubulin superfamily, which is composed of six distinct families. Along with beta-tubulins, alpha-Tubulins are the major components of microtubules. These microtubules are involved in a wide variety of cellular activities ranging from mitosis and transport events to cell movement and the maintenance of cell shape. Alpha- and beta-tubulin dimers are assembled to 13 protofilaments that form a microtubule of 22-nm diameter (reviewed in 1). Tyrosine ligase adds a C-terminal tyrosine to monomeric alpha-Tubulin. Assembled microtubules can again be detyrosinated by a cytoskeleton-associated carboxypeptidase (2). Another post-translational modification of detyrosinated alpha-Tubulin is C-terminal polyglutamylation, which is characteristic of microtubules in neuronal cells and the mitotic spindle (3). Like GAPDH and ?-Actin, this antibody makes an excellent loading control in immunoblots. |
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| REFERENCES: | 1) McKean PG, Vaughan S, and Gull K. The extended tubulin family. J. Cell Sci. 2001; 114:2723-33. | 2) Barra HA, Arce CA, and Argarana CE. Posttranslational tyrosination/detyrosination of tubulin. Mol. Neurobiol. 1988; 2:133-53. | 3) Fukshima N, Furuta D, Hidaka Y, et al. Post-translational modifcations of tubulin in the nervous system. J. Neurochem. 2009; 109:683-693. |
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