ALKBH5 Antibody

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ALKBH5 Antibody Summary

• Immunogen: ALKBH5 (NP_060228.2, 1 a.a. ~ 458 a.a) full-length human protein.MAAASGYTDLREKLKSMTSRDNYKAGSREAAAAAAAAVAAAAAAAAAAEPYPVSGAKRKYQEDSDPERSDYEEQQLQKEEEARKVKSGIRQMRLFSQDECAKIEARIDEVVSRAEKGLYNEHTVDRAPLRNKYFFGEGYTYGAQLQKRGPGQERLYPPGDVDEIPEWVHQLVIQKLVEHRVIPEGFVNSAVINDYQPGGCIVSHVDPIHIFERPIVSVSFFSDSALCFGCKFQFKPIRVSEPVLSLPVRRGSVTV
• Specificity: ALKBH5 - alkB, alkylation repair homolog 5 (E. coli),
• Isotype: IgG
• Clonality: Polyclonal
• Host: Mouse
• Gene: ALKBH5
• Purity: Protein A purified

Applications/Dilutions

• Dilutions:
  • ELISA
  • Western Blot 1:500
• Application Notes: Antibody reactive against Recombinant Protein with GST tag on ELISA and Western Blot and also on transfected lysate in western blot. GST tag alone is used as a negative control.

Packaging, Storage & Formulations

• Storage: Aliquot and store at -20C or -80C. Avoid freeze-thaw cycles.
• Buffer: PBS (pH 7.4)
• Preservative: No Preservative
• Purity: Protein A purified

Notes

This product is produced by and distributed for Abnova, a company based in Taiwan.

Alternate Names for ALKBH5 Antibody

• ABH5
• ABH5OFOXD
• alkB, alkylation repair homolog 5 (E. coli)
• ALKBH5
• Alkylated DNA repair protein alkB homolog 5
• EC 1.14.11.-
• EC 1.14.11.53
• FLJ20308
• OFOXD1
• oxoglutarate and iron-dependent oxygenase domain containing
• probable alpha-ketoglutarate-dependent dioxygenase ABH5

Background

ALKBH5, RNA demethylase ALKBH5, ALKB homolog 5 (44 kDa) is a dioxygenase enzyme which demethylates RNA in a reaction requiring oxygen, alpha-ketoglutarate, and iron. ALKBH5 and fat mass and obesity-associated protein (FTO) are involved in the demethylation of N6-methyladenosine or m6A mRNA, the most common post-translational modification in eukaryotic mRNA. m6A mRNA modifications are very dynamic; they are introduced into the mRNA by m6A methyltransferases (e.g., METTL3/14 and KIAA1429), removed by erasers such as FTO and ALKBH5, and decoded by m6A binding proteins (e.g., IGF2BP1 and YTHDF1/2/3). m6A mRNA modifications play roles in regulating mRNA splicing, processing, translation and stability. m6A mRNA modifications are also associated with pathological states including cancer (1, 2).

ALKBH5 has been implicated in various physiological and pathophysiological processes. In mice, ALKBH5 is highly expressed in the testes where loss of ALKBH5 expression leads to decreased spermatogenesis, abnormal spermatozoa and increased apoptosis (3). In glioblastoma, ALKBH5 overexpression promotes stemness and tumor progression (2). In breast cancer cells under hypoxic conditions, HIF-1 alpha and HIF-2 alpha induce the expression of ALKH5 and leads to increased demethylation and expression of Nanog thus promoting breast cancer stem cell properties (4).

References

1. Chen, X. Y., Zhang, J., & Zhu, J. S. (2019). The role of m6A RNA methylation in human cancer. Molecular Cancer. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12943-019-1033-z

2. Deng, X., Su, R., Weng, H., Huang, H., Li, Z., & Chen, J. (2018). RNA N 6 -methyladenosine modification in cancers: Current status and perspectives. Cell Research. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41422-018-0034-6

3. Meyer, K. D., & Jaffrey, S. R. (2014). The dynamic epitranscriptome: N6-methyladenosine and gene expression control. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. https://doi.org/10.1038/nrm3785

4. Zhang, C., Samanta, D., Lu, H., Bullen, J. W., Zhang, H., Chen, I., ... Semenza, G. L. (2016). Hypoxia induces the breast cancer stem cell phenotype by HIF-dependent and ALKBH5-mediated m6A-demethylation of NANOG mRNA. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1602883113

Limitations

This product is for research use only and is not approved for use in humans or in clinical diagnosis. Primary Antibodies are guaranteed for 1 year from date of receipt.

Bioinformatics

• Gene Symbol: ALKBH5
• Entrez:
  • 54890(Human)
• Uniprot:
  • NP_060228.2(Human)