Cell Signaling Technology

Product Pathways - Apoptosis

PARP Antibody #9542

Applications Reactivity Sensitivity MW (kDa) Source
W H M R Mk Endogenous 89, 116 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

PARP Antibody detects endogenous levels of full length PARP1 (116 kDa), as well as the large fragment (89 kDa) of PARP1 resulting from caspase cleavage. The antibody does not cross-react with related proteins or other PARP isoforms.

Source / Purification

Polyclonal antibodies are produced by immunizing animals with a synthetic peptide corresponding to the caspase cleavage site in PARP. Antibodies are purified by protein A and peptide affinity chromatography.

Western Blotting

Western Blotting

Western blot analysis of extracts from NIH/3T3 cells, untreated or staurosporine-treated (1 µM), and Jurkat cells, untreated or etoposide-treated (25 µM), using PARP Antibody.

Background

PARP, a 116 kDa nuclear poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase, appears to be involved in DNA repair in response to environmental stress (1). This protein can be cleaved by many ICE-like caspases in vitro (2,3) and is one of the main cleavage targets of caspase-3 in vivo (4,5). In human PARP, the cleavage occurs between Asp214 and Gly215, which separates the PARP amino-terminal DNA binding domain (24 kDa) from the carboxy-terminal catalytic domain (89 kDa) (2,4). PARP helps cells to maintain their viability; cleavage of PARP facilitates cellular disassembly and serves as a marker of cells undergoing apoptosis (6).

  1. Satoh, M.S. and Lindahl, T. (1992) Nature 356, 356-358.
  2. Lazebnik, Y. A. et al. (1994) Nature 371, 346-347.
  3. Cohen, G.M. (1997) Biochem. J. 326, 1-16.
  4. Nicholson, D. W. et al. (1995) Nature 376, 37-43.
  5. Tewari, M. et al. (1995) Cell 81, 801-809.
  6. Oliver, F.J. et al. (1998) J. Biol. Chem. 273, 33533-33539.

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