Cell Signaling Technology

Product Pathways - Lymphocyte Signaling

Syk Antibody #2712

Applications Reactivity Sensitivity MW (kDa) Source
W H M (R) Endogenous 72 Rabbit

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

Protocols

Specificity / Sensitivity

Syk Antibody detects endogenous levels of total Syk protein. It does not cross-react with other members of the Syk/Zap-70 tyrosine kinase family.

Source / Purification

Polyclonal antibodies are produced by immunizing animals with a synthetic peptide corresponding to the carboxy-terminal sequence of human Syk. Antibodies are purified by protein A and peptide affinity chromatography.

Western Blotting

Western Blotting

Western blot analysis of extracts from Jurkat (lane 1) and THP1 (lane 2) cells, and untransfected or Syk cDNA-transfected DT40 cells, treated as indicated (lanes 3-5), using Syk Antibody.

Background

Syk is a protein tyrosine kinase that plays an important role in intracellular signal transduction in hematopoietic cells (1-3). Syk interacts with immunoreceptor tyrosine-based activation motifs (ITAMs) located in the cytoplasmic domains of immune receptors (4). It couples the activated immunoreceptors to downstream signaling events that mediate diverse cellular responses, including proliferation, differentiation and phagocytosis (4). There is also evidence of a role for Syk in nonimmune cells, and Syk is a potential tumor suppressor in human breast carcinomas (5). Tyr323 is a negative regulatory phosphorylation site within the SH2-kinase linker region in Syk. Phosphorylation of Tyr323 provides a direct binding site to the TKB domain of Cbl (6,7). Tyrosine 352 of Syk is involved in the association of PLC-γ1 (8). Tyrosines 525 and 526 are located in the activation loop of the Syk kinase domain, and phosphorylation of Tyr525/526 of human Syk (equivalent to the Tyr519/520 of mouse Syk) is essential for Syk function (9).

  1. Cheng, A.M. and Chan, A.C. (1997) Curr. Opin. Immunol. 9, 528-533.
  2. Kurosaki, T. et al. (1997) Curr. Opin. Immunol. 9, 309-318.
  3. Chu, D.H. et al. (1998) Immunol. Rev. 165, 167-180.
  4. Turner, M. et al. (2000) Immunol. Today 21, 148-154.
  5. Coopman, P.J. et al. (2000) Nature 406, 742-747.
  6. Deckert, M. et al. (1998) J. Biol. Chem. 273, 8867-8874.
  7. Rao, N. et al. (2001) EMBO J. 20, 7085-7095.
  8. Law, C.L. et al. (1996) Mol. Cell. Biol. 16, 1305-1315.
  9. Zhang, J. et al. (2000) J. Biol. Chem. 275, 35442-35447.

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