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Cell Signaling Technology

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For Research Use Only. Not for Use in Diagnostic Procedures.
Applications:

WB, W-S

REACTIVITY:

H

SENSITIVITY:

Endogenous

MW (kDa):

18-22

SOURCE:

Rabbit

UniProt ID:

#P40337

Entrez-Gene Id:

7428

Product Information

Product Usage Information

Application Dilution
Western Blotting 1:1000
Simple Western™ 1:10 - 1:50

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.

Specificity / Sensitivity

VHL Antibody recognizes endogenous levels of total VHL protein.

Species Reactivity:

Human

Source / Purification

Polyclonal antibodies are produced by immunizing animals with a synthetic peptide corresponding to residues near the carboxy terminus of human VHL protein.

Background

The von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) protein is a substrate recognition component of an E3 ubiquitin ligase complex containing elongin BC (TCEB1 and TCEB2), cullin 1 (CUL1), and RING-box protein 1 (RBX1) (1-3). VHL protein has been shown to exist as three distinct isoforms resulting from alternatively spliced transcript variants (4). Loss of VHL protein function results in a dominantly inherited familial cancer syndrome that manifests as angiomas of the retina, hemangioblastomas of the central nervous system, renal clear cell carcinomas, and pheochromocytomas (4). Under normoxic conditions, VHL directs the ubiquitylation and subsequent proteasomal degradation of the hypoxia-inducible factor 1α (HIF-1α), maintaining very low levels of HIF-1α in the cell. Cellular exposure to hypoxic conditions, or loss of VHL protein function, results in increased HIF-1α protein levels and increased expression of HIF-induced gene products, many of which are angiogenesis factors such as vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF). Thus, loss of VHL protein function is believed to contribute to the formation of highly vascular neoplasias (4). In addition to HIF-1α, VHL is known to regulate the ubiquitylation of several other proteins, including tat-binding protein-1 (TBP-1), the atypical protein kinase C (aPKC) lambda, and two subunits of the multiprotein RNA polymerase II complex (RPB1 and RPB7) (5-8). Interactions with elongin BC, RPB1, RPB7, and the pVHL-associated KRAB-A domain-containing protein (VHLaK) suggest that VHL may also play a more direct role in transcriptional repression.

  1. Kibel, A. et al. (1995) Science 269, 1444-6.
  2. Pause, A. et al. (1997) Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 94, 2156-61.
  3. Kamura, T. et al. (2000) Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 97, 10430-5.
  4. Czyzyk-Krzeska, M.F. and Meller, J. (2004) Trends Mol Med 10, 146-9.
  5. Corn, P.G. et al. (2003) Nat Genet 35, 229-37.
  6. Na, X. et al. (2003) EMBO J 22, 4249-59.
  7. Kuznetsova, A.V. et al. (2003) Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100, 2706-11.
  8. Li, Z. et al. (2003) EMBO J 22, 1857-67.

Species Reactivity

Species reactivity is determined by testing in at least one approved application (e.g., western blot).

Western Blot Buffer

IMPORTANT: For western blots, incubate membrane with diluted primary antibody in 5% w/v BSA, 1X TBS, 0.1% Tween® 20 at 4°C with gentle shaking, overnight.

Applications Key

WB: Western Blotting W-S: Simple Western™

Cross-Reactivity Key

H: human M: mouse R: rat Hm: hamster Mk: monkey Vir: virus Mi: mink C: chicken Dm: D. melanogaster X: Xenopus Z: zebrafish B: bovine Dg: dog Pg: pig Sc: S. cerevisiae Ce: C. elegans Hr: horse GP: Guinea Pig Rab: rabbit All: all species expected

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Revision 3
#68547

VHL Antibody

Western Blotting Image 1: VHL Antibody Expand Image
Western blot analysis of extracts from various cell lines using VHL Antibody (upper) and β-Actin (D6A8) Rabbit mAb #8457 (lower). Note that 786-O is a VHL-null cell line, demonstrating specificity of the antibody.
Western Blotting Image 1: VHL Antibody Expand Image
Simple Western™ analysis of lysates (0.1 mg/mL) from U-937 cells using VHL Antibody #68547. The virtual lane view (left) shows the target band (as indicated) at 1:10 and 1:50 dilutions of primary antibody. The corresponding electropherogram view (right) plots chemiluminescence by molecular weight along the capillary at 1:10 (blue line) and 1:50 (green line) dilutions of primary antibody. This experiment was performed under reducing conditions on the Jess™ Simple Western instrument from ProteinSimple, a BioTechne brand, using the 2-40 kDa separation module.