alpha Tubulin Antibody (2D2)

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alpha Tubulin Antibody (2D2) Summary

• Description: Quality control test: Antibody Reactive Against Recombinant Protein.
• Immunogen: TUBA1A (NP_006000 352 a.a. - 451 a.a.) partial recombinant protein with GST tag. MW of the GST tag alone is 26 KDa. KVGINYQPPTVVPGGDLAKVQRAVCMLSNTTAIAEAWARLDHKFDLMYAKRAFVHWYVGEGMEEGEFSEAREDMAALEKDYEEVGVDSVEGEGEEEGEEY
• Marker: Microtubule Marker
• Specificity: TUBA3 - tubulin, alpha 3 (2D2)
• Isotype: IgG2a Kappa
• Clonality: Monoclonal
• Host: Mouse
• Gene: TUBA1A
• Purity: IgG purified

Applications/Dilutions

• Dilutions:
  • ELISA
  • Immunocytochemistry/ Immunofluorescence
  • Western Blot
• Application Notes: Antibody reactivity against cell lysate and recombinant protein for WB. It has also been used for ELISA.
• Theoretical MW: 50 kDa.
  Disclaimer note: The observed molecular weight of the protein may vary from the listed predicted molecular weight due to post translational modifications, post translation cleavages, relative charges, and other experimental factors.

Packaging, Storage & Formulations

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

Notes

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

Alternate Names for alpha Tubulin Antibody (2D2)

• alpha Tubulin
• Alpha-Tubulin 3
• B-ALPHA-1
• FLJ25113
• hum-a-tub1
• hum-a-tub2
• LIS3
• TUBA1A
• TUBA3
• tublin
• tubulin alpha-1A chain
• Tubulin alpha-3 chain
• Tubulin B-Alpha-1
• tubulin, alpha 1a
• tubulin, alpha 3
• tubulin, alpha, brain-specific

Background

Tubulin is the major building block of microtubules. Microtubules function as structural and mobile elements in mitosis, intracellular transport, flagellar movement and in the cytoskeleton. The tubulin superfamily is composed of six distinct families. Genes from the alpha, beta and gamma tubulin families are found in all eukaryotes. Microtubules of the eukaryotic cytoskeleton perform essential and diverse functions and are composed of a heterodimer of alpha and beta tubulins. Alpha and beta tubulin dimers are assembled to 13 protofilaments that form a microtubule of 22 nm diameter with a theoretical molecular weight of 50 kDa.

Tyrosine ligase adds a C-terminal tyrosine to monomeric alpha tubulin. Assembled microtubules can again be detyrosinated by a cytoskeleton associated carboxypeptidase. Detyrosinated alpha tubulin is referred to as Glu-tubulin. Another post-translational modification of detyrosinated alpha tubulin is C-terminal polyglutamylation which is characteristic for microtubules in neuronal cells and the mitotic spindle.

Like GAPDH and beta-actin, alpha/beta tubulin is often used as a loading control in immunoblot applications (1). Alpha/beta tubulin is also good for counterstaining microtubules in immunofluorescence (2).

References

1. Hannen, R., Selmansberger, M., Hauswald, M., Pagenstecher, A., Nist, A., Stiewe, T., . . . Bartsch, J. W. (2019). Comparative Transcriptomic Analysis of Temozolomide Resistant Primary GBM Stem-Like Cells and Recurrent GBM Identifies Up-Regulation of the Carbonic Anhydrase CA2 Gene as Resistance Factor. Cancers (Basel), 11(7). doi:10.3390/cancers11070921

2. Nel, M., Joubert, A. M., Dohle, W., Potter, B. V., & Theron, A. E. (2018). Modes of cell death induced by tetrahydroisoquinoline-based analogs in MDA-MB-231 breast and A549 lung cancer cell lines. Drug Des Devel Ther, 12, 1881-1904. doi:10.2147/dddt.S152718

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.

Publications for alpha Tubulin Antibody (H00007846-M06)(1)

Publication using H00007846-M06

• Niemeyer CM, Kang MW, Shin DH et al. Germline CBL mutations cause developmental abnormalities and predispose to juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia. Nat Genet. 2010-08-08 [PMID: 20694012]

Bioinformatics

• Gene Symbol: TUBA1A
• Entrez:
  • 7846(Human)
• Uniprot:
  • NP_006000(Human)