Loading Control Antibody Sampler Kit (Mouse) #9774
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Specificity / Sensitivity
Each antibody in the Loading Control Antibody Sampler Kit detects endogenous levels of its target protein and does not typically cross-react with other proteins.
Source / Purification
Monoclonal antibodies are produced by immunizing animals with synthetic peptides corresponding to residues near the amino terminus of human β-actin, the carboxy terminus of human histone H3, or with full-length chicken α-tubulin purfied from brain extracts. The epitope of α-Tubulin (DM1A) Mouse mAb recognizes residues surrounding Val440 of human α-tubulin protein.
Background
Housekeeping proteins perform numerous basic functions within the cell and are constitutively expressed at high levels in a variety of tissues and cell types. Western blot analysis commonly uses housekeeping proteins such as β-actin, histone H3, and α-tubulin as loading controls. Actin is a ubiquitous protein and a major component of the eukaryotic cytoskeleton. Actin exists mainly as the F-actin fibrous polymer (1). Globular tubulin subunits made up of α- and β-tubulin heterodimers are the building blocks of microtubules, one of three types of cytosolic fibers that comprise the cytoskeleton (2). Histone proteins, including histone H3, make up the primary building block of chromatin known as nucleosomes. Modulation of the chromatin structure plays an important role in the regulation of transcription in eukaryotes (3).
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