Cell Signaling Technology

Product Pathways - Cytoskeletal Signaling

Filamin A Antibody #4762

Applications Reactivity Sensitivity MW (kDa) Source
W H M R Mk Endogenous 280 Rabbit

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

Protocols

Specificity / Sensitivity

Filamin A Antibody detects endogenous levels of total filamin A protein. This antibody may cross-react with filamin B and C.

Source / Purification

Polyclonal antibodies are produced by immunizing animals with synthetic peptides corresponding to human filamin A. Antibodies are purified by protein A and peptide affinity chromatography.

Western Blotting

Western Blotting

Western blot analysis of extracts from HeLa, NIH/3T3, C6 and COS cells, using Filamin A Antibody.

Background

Filamins are a family of dimeric actin binding proteins that function as structural components of cell adhesion sites. They also serve as a scaffold for subcellular targeting of signaling molecules (1). The actin binding domain (alpha-actinin domain) is located at the very amino-terminus, followed by as many as 24 tandem repeats of about 96 residues, and the dimerization domain is located at the carboxy-terminal end of th protein. In addition to actin filaments, filamins associate with other structural and signaling molecules such as beta-integrins, Rho/Rac/Cdc42, PKC, and insulin receptor, primarily through their carboxy-terminal half (1-3). Filamin A, the most abundant, and filamin B, less abundant, are widely expressed isoforms, while filamin C is predominantly expressed in muscle (1). Serine 2152 of filamin A is phosphorylated by PAK1, and this phosphorylation is required for PAK1-mediated actin cytoskeleton reorganization (4).

  1. Stossel, T. P. et al. (2001) Nat. Rev. Mol. Cell Biol. 2, 138-145.
  2. Tigges, U. et al. (2003) J. Biol. Chem. 278, 23561-23569.
  3. He, H. et al. (2003) J. Biol. Chem. 278, 27096-27104.
  4. Vadlamudi, R. K. et al. (2002) Nat. Cell Biol. 4, 681-690.

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