Cell Signaling Technology

Product Pathways - MAPK Signaling

MEK2 Antibody #9125

Applications Reactivity Sensitivity MW (kDa) Source
W H M R Mk Endogenous 45 Rabbit

Applications Key:  W=Western Blotting
Reactivity Key:  H=Human  M=Mouse  R=Rat  Mk=Monkey
Species cross-reactivity is determined by Western blot.

Protocols

Specificity / Sensitivity

MEK2 Antibody detects endogenous levels of total MEK2. This antibody does not cross-react with MEK1 and other MAP kinase kinases.

Source / Purification

Polyclonal antibodies are produced by immunizing animals with a synthetic peptide corresponding to human MEK2. 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 MEK2 Antibody.

Background

MEK1 and MEK2, also called MAPK or Erk kinases, are dual-specificity protein kinases that function in a mitogen activated protein kinase cascade controlling cell growth and differentiation (1-3). Activation of MEK1 and MEK2 occurs through phosphorylation of two serine residues at positions 217 and 221, located in the activation loop of subdomain VIII, by Raf-like molecules. MEK1/2 is activated by a wide variety of growth factors and cytokines and also by membrane depolarization and calcium influx (1-4). Constitutively active forms of MEK1/2 are sufficient for the transformation of NIH/3T3 cells or the differentiation of PC12 cells (4). MEK activates p44 and p42 MAP kinase by phosphorylating both threonine and tyrosine residues at sites located within the activation loop of kinase subdomain VIII.

  1. Crews, C.M. et al. (1992) Science 258, 478-480.
  2. Alessi, D.R. et al. (1994) EMBO J. 13, 1610-1619.
  3. Rosen, L.B. et al. (1994) Neuron 12, 1207-1221.
  4. Cowley, S. et al. (1994) Cell 77, 841-852.

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