Cell Signaling Technology

Product Pathways - Jak/Stat Pathway

Stat2 Antibody #4594

Applications Reactivity Sensitivity MW (kDa) Source
W H Endogenous 113 Rabbit

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

Protocols

Specificity / Sensitivity

Stat2 Antibody detects endogenous levels of total Stat2 protein.

Source / Purification

Polyclonal antibodies are produced by immunizing animals with a synthetic peptide corresponding to residues near the carboxyl terminus of human Stat2. Antibodies were purified by protein A and peptide affinity chromatography.

Western Blotting

Western Blotting

Western blot analysis of extracts from K562 and SW620 cells, using Stat2 Antibody.

Background

Stat2 (113-kDa), originally purified from the nuclei of alpha-interferon-treated cells, is critical to the transcriptional responses induced by type I interferons, IFN-alpha/beta (1,2). Knockout mice with a targeted disruption of Stat2 have higher susceptibility to viral infection and altered responses to type I interferons (3). Stat2 is rapidly activated by phosphorylation at Tyr690 in response to stimulation by IFN-alpha/beta via associations with receptor-bound Jak kinases (4). Unlike other Stat proteins, Stat2 does not form homodimers. Instead, activated Stat2 forms a heterodimer with Stat1 and translocates to the nucleus. There, it associates with the DNA-binding protein p48 and forms the transcriptional activator complex, interferon-stimulated gene factor 3 (ISGF3), promoting transcription from the ISRE (5).

  1. Fu, X.Y. et al. (1992) Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 89, 7840-3.
  2. Ihle, J.N. (2001) Curr Opin Cell Biol 13, 211-7.
  3. Park, C. et al. (2000) Immunity 13, 795-804.
  4. Improta, T. et al. (1994) Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 91, 4776-80.
  5. Horvath, C.M. et al. (1996) Mol Cell Biol 16, 6957-64.

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