BORIS Antibody

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Product Specifications

REACTIVITY	H
SENSITIVITY	Transfected Only
MW (kDa)	85
SOURCE	Rabbit

Application Key:

WB-Western Blotting

Species Cross-Reactivity Key:

H-Human

Product Information

Product Usage Information

Application	Dilution
Western Blotting	1:1000

Storage

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

Protocol

Specificity / Sensitivity

BORIS Antibody recognizes transfected levels of total BORIS protein.

Species Reactivity:

Human

The antigen sequence used to produce this antibody shares 100% sequence homology with the species listed here, but reactivity has not been tested or confirmed to work by CST. Use of this product with these species is not covered under our Product Performance Guarantee.

Species predicted to react based on 100% sequence homology:

Mouse

Source / Purification

Polyclonal antibodies are produced by immunizing animals with a synthetic peptide corresponding to residues surrounding Leu137 of mouse BORIS protein. Antibodies are purified by protein A and peptide affinity chromatography.

Background

CCCTC-binding factor (CTCF) and its paralog, the Brother of the Regulator of Imprinted Sites (BORIS), are highly conserved transcription factors that regulate transcriptional activation and repression, insulator function, and imprinting control regions (ICRs) (1-4). Although they have divergent amino and carboxy termini, both proteins contain 11 conserved zinc finger domains that work in combination to bind the same DNA elements (1). CTCF is ubiquitously expressed and contributes to transcriptional regulation of cell-growth regulated genes, including c-Myc, p19/ARF, p16/INK4A, BRCA1, p53, p27, E2F1, and TERT (1). CTCF also binds to and is required for the enhancer-blocking activity of all known insulator elements and ICRs, including the H19/IgF2, Prader-Willi/Angelman syndrome, and Inactive X-Specific Transcript (XIST) anti-sense loci (5-7). CTCF DNA-binding is sensitive to DNA methylation, a mark that determines selection of the imprinted allele (maternal vs. paternal) (1). The various functions of CTCF are regulated by at least two different post-translational modifications. Poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation of CTCF is required for insulator function (8). Phosphorylation of Ser612 by protein kinase CK2 facilitates a switch of CTCF from a transcriptional repressor to an activator at the c-Myc promoter (9). CTCF mutations or deletions have been found in many breast, prostate, and Wilms' tumors (10,11). Expression of BORIS is restricted to spermatocytes and is mutually exclusive of CTCF (3). In cells expressing BORIS, promoters of X-linked cancer-testis antigens like MAGE-A1 are demethylated and activated, but methylated and inactive in CTCF-expressing somatic cells (12). Like other testis specific proteins, BORIS is abnormally expressed in different cancers, such as breast cancer, and has a greater affinity than CTCF for DNA-binding sites, detracting from CTCF’s potential tumor suppressing activity (1,3,13,14).

Alternate Names

BORIS; BORIS-like protein; Brother of the regulator of imprinted sites; Cancer/testis antigen 27; CCCTC-binding factor; CCCTC-binding factor (zinc finger protein)-like; CCCTC-binding factor like; CT27; CTCF paralog; CTCF-like protein; CTCF-T; CTCFL; dJ579F20.2; HMG-1L1; HMGB1L1; MGC163358; MGC169105; MGC169106; putative high mobility group protein 1-like 1; putative high mobility group protein B1-like 1; Transcriptional repressor CTCFL; Zinc finger protein CTCF-T

Database Links

UniProt ID: Q8NI51

Entrez-Gene Id: 140690

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BORIS Antibody #6890