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Phospho-HSP27 (Ser15) Antibody #2404

Applications Reactivity Sensitivity MW (kDa) Source
W H Mk Endogenous 27 Rabbit

Applications Key:  W=Western Blotting
Reactivity Key:  H=Human  Mk=Monkey
Species cross-reactivity is determined by western blot. Species enclosed in parentheses are predicted to react based on 100% sequence homology.

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Specificity / Sensitivity

Phospho-HSP27 (Ser15) Antibody detects endogenous levels of HSP27 only when phosphorylated at serine 15.

Source / Purification

Polyclonal antibodies are produced by immunizing animals with a synthetic phosphopeptide corresponding to residues surrounding Ser15 of human HSP27. Antibodies are purified by protein A and peptide affinity chromatography.

Western Blotting

Western Blotting

Western blot analysis of extracts from HeLa and COS cells, untreated, anisomycin-treated or UV-treated, using Phospho-HSP27 (Ser15) Antibody (upper) or HSP27 (G31) Monoclonal Antibody #2402 (lower).

Background

Heat shock protein (HSP) 27 is one of the small HSPs that are constitutively expressed at different levels in various cell types and tissues. Like other small HSPs, HSP27 is regulated at both the transcriptional and posttranslational levels (1). In response to stress, the HSP27 expression increases several-fold to confer cellular resistance to the adverse environmental change. HSP27 is phosphorylated at Ser15, Ser78, and Ser82 by MAPKAPK-2 as a result of the activation of the p38 MAP kinase pathway (2,3). Phosphorylation of HSP27 causes a change in its tertiary structure, which shifts from large homotypic multimers to dimers and monomers (4). It has been shown that phosphorylation and increased concentration of HSP27 modulates actin polymerization and reorganization (5,6).

  1. Arrigo, A.P. and Landry, J. (1994) Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, NY, 335-373.
  2. Landry, J. et al. (1992) J. Biol. Chem. 267, 794-803.
  3. Rouse, J. et al. (1994) Cell 78, 1027-1037.
  4. Rogalla, T. et al. (1999) J. Biol. Chem. 274, 18947-18956.
  5. Lavoie, J. et al. (1993) J. Biol. Chem. 268, 24210-24214.
  6. Rousseau, S. et al. (1997) Oncogene 15, 2169-2177.

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