Cell Signaling Technology

Product Pathways - PI3K / Akt Signaling

Phospho-PTEN (Ser380/Thr382/383) (44A7) Rabbit mAb #9549

Applications Reactivity Sensitivity MW (kDa) Isotype
W H M R Mk Endogenous 54 Rabbit IgG

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

Phospho-PTEN (Ser380/Thr382/383) (44A7) Rabbit mAb detects endogenous levels of PTEN only when phosphorylated at Ser380, Thr382 and Thr383.

Source / Purification

Monoclonal antibody is produced by immunizing animals with a synthetic phosphopeptide corresponding to residues around Ser380, Thr382 and Thr383 of human PTEN.

Western Blotting

Western Blotting

Western blot analysis of extracts from HeLa and NIH/3T3 cells, using Phospho-PTEN (Ser380/Thr382/383) (44A7) Rabbit mAb. Membranes were either left untreated (-) or treated with (+) calf intestinal phosphatase (CIP) post Western transfer to verify phospho-specificity of the antibody.

Background

PTEN (phosphatase and tensin homologue deleted on chromosome ten), also referred to as MMAC (mutated in multiple advanced cancers) phosphatase, is a tumor suppressor implicated in a wide variety of human cancers (1). PTEN encodes a 403 amino acid polypeptide originally described as a dual-specificity protein phosphatase (2). The main substrates of PTEN are inositol phospholipids generated by the activation of the phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) (3). PTEN is a major negative regulator of the PI3K/Akt signaling pathway (1,4,5). PTEN possesses a carboxy-terminal, noncatalytic regulatory domain with three phosphorylation sites (Ser380, Thr382, and Thr383) that regulate PTEN stability and may affect its biological activity (6,7). PTEN regulates p53 protein levels and activity (8) and is involved in G protein-coupled signaling during chemotaxis (9,10).

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  2. Myers, M.P. et al. (1997) Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 94, 9052-7.
  3. Myers, M.P. et al. (1998) Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 95, 13513-8.
  4. Wan, X. and Helman, L.J. (2003) Oncogene 22, 8205-11.
  5. Wu, X. et al. (1998) Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 95, 15587-91.
  6. Vazquez, F. et al. (2000) Mol Cell Biol 20, 5010-8.
  7. Torres, J. and Pulido, R. (2001) J Biol Chem 276, 993-8.
  8. Freeman, D.J. et al. (2003) Cancer Cell 3, 117-30.
  9. Funamoto, S. et al. (2002) Cell 109, 611-23.
  10. Iijima, M. and Devreotes, P. (2002) Cell 109, 599-610.

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Rabbit Monoclonals Produced Using Epitomics® Technology, U.S. Patent No. 5,675,063.

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