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1 Kit

(8 x 20 microliters)

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Product Includes Product # Quantity Mol. Wt Isotype/Source
HSP60 (D6F1) XP® Rabbit mAb 12165 20 µl 60 kDa Rabbit IgG
HSP70 Antibody 4872 20 µl 72, 73 kDa Rabbit 
HSF1 Antibody 4356 20 µl 82 kDa Rabbit 
BiP (C50B12) Rabbit mAb 3177 20 µl 78 kDa Rabbit IgG
HSP40 (C64B4) Rabbit mAb 4871 20 µl 40 kDa Rabbit 
HSP90 (C45G5) Rabbit mAb 4877 20 µl 90 kDa Rabbit IgG
Calnexin (C5C9) Rabbit mAb 2679 20 µl 90 kDa Rabbit IgG
PDI (C81H6) Rabbit mAb 3501 20 µl 57 kDa Rabbit 
Anti-rabbit IgG, HRP-linked Antibody 7074 100 µl Goat 

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Description

The HSP/Chaperone Sampler Kit provides an economical means to investigate protein folding within the cell. The kit contains enough primary and secondary antibodies to perform two Western blot experiments with each antibody.

Storage

Supplied in 10 mM sodium HEPES (pH 7.5), 150 mM NaCl, 100 µg/ml BSA, 50% glycerol and less than 0.02% sodium azide. Store at –20°C. Do not aliquot the antibody.

Background

HSP70 and HSP90 are molecular chaperones expressed constitutively under normal conditions to maintain protein homeostasis and are induced upon environmental stress (1). HSP70 and HSP90 interact with unfolded proteins to prevent irreversible aggregation and catalyze the refolding of their substrates in an ATP-dependent manner (1). HSP40 family proteins bind unfolded proteins and prevent their aggregation, and deliver unfolded protiens to HSP70 (2). HSP60 has primarily been known as a mitochondrial protein that is important for folding key proteins after import into the mitochondria (3). HSP60 is also present in the cytosol of many cells and is induced by stress, inflammatory and immune responses, autoantibodies correlated with Alzheimer's, coronary artery diseases, MS, and diabetes (4-7). Secretory and transmembrane proteins are synthesized on polysomes and translocate into the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) where they are often modified by the formation of disulfide bonds, amino-linked glycosylation and folding. The ER contains a pool of molecular chaperones including calnexin, BiP and protein disulfide isomerase (PDI). Calenxin is a calcium-binding protein embedded in the ER membrane that retains newly synthesized glycoproteins inside the ER to ensure proper folding and quality control (8,9). When protein folding is disturbed inside the ER, Bip synthesis is increased. Subsequently, BiP binds to misfolded proteins to prevent them from forming aggregates and assists them to refold properly (10). PDI catalyzes the formation and isomerization of disulfide bonds required to reach a proteins native state (11). Heat shock gene transcription is regulated by a familly of heat shock factors (HSFs), transcriptional activators that bind to heat shock response elements (HSEs) located upstream of all heat shock genes (12). During attenuation from the heat shock response, HSF1 is repressed by direct binding of HSP70, HSP40/Hdj-1 and HSF binding protein 1 (HSBP1) (13).

  1. Nollen, E.A. and Morimoto, R.I. (2002) J. Cell Sci. 115, 2809-2816.
  2. Fan, C.Y. et al. (2003) Cell Stress Chaperones 8, 309-316.
  3. Jindal, S. et al. (1989) Mol Cell Biol 9, 2279-83.
  4. Itoh, H. et al. (2002) Eur. J. Biochem. 269, 5931-5938.
  5. Gupta, S. and Knowlton, A.A. J. Cell Mol. Med. 9, 51-58.
  6. Deocaris, C.C. et al. (2006) Cell Stress Chaperones 11, 116-128.
  7. Lai, H.C. et al. (2007) Am. J. Physiol. Endocrinol. Metab. 292, E292-E297.
  8. Bergeron, J.J. et al. (1994) Trends Biochem. Sci. 19, 124-128.
  9. Williams, D.B. (2006) J. Cell Sci. 119, 615-623.
  10. Kohno, K. et al. (1993) Mol. Cell. Biol. 13, 877-890.
  11. Ellgaard, L. and Ruddock, L.W. (2005) EMBO Rep. 6, 28-32.
  12. Morimoto, R.I. (1998) Genes Dev. 12, 3788-3796.
  13. Satyal, S.H. et al. (1998) Genes Dev. 12, 1962-1974.

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