Calpastatin Antibody Pair

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Calpastatin Antibody Pair Summary

• Description: Quality control test: Standard curve using recombinant protein (H00000831-P01) as an analyte. This antibody pair set comes with matched antibody pair to detect and quantify protein level of human CAST.
  
  
• Capture antibody: rabbit MaxPab affinity purified polyclonal anti-CAST (100 ug)
• Detection antibody: mouse purified polyclonal anti-CAST (20 ug)
• Standard Curve Range: 3 ng/ml to 100 ng/ml
• Assay Type: Sandwich ELISA
• Clonality: Monoclonal
• Gene: CAST
• Purity: Immunogen affinity purified

Applications/Dilutions

• Dilutions:
  • Sandwich ELISA 3 ng/ml - 100 ng/ml

Packaging, Storage & Formulations

• Storage: Aliquot and store at -20C or -80C. Avoid freeze-thaw cycles.
• Buffer: 1x PBS, pH 7.4
• Preservative: No Preservative
• Purity: Immunogen affinity purified

Notes

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

Alternate Names for Calpastatin Antibody Pair

• BS-17
• Calpain inhibitor
• calpastatin
• MGC9402
• Sperm BS-17 component

Background

The calpain system has been detected in every vertebrate tissue examined, and has been suggested to play a regulatory role in cellular protein metabolism. This regulatory role may have important implications in platelet aggregation and pathologies associated with altered calcium homeostasis and protein metabolism such as ischemic cell injury and degenerative diseases. Inhibitors of calpain have been shown to block dexamethasone and low-level irradiation induced apoptosis in thymocytes suggesting that calpain has a regulatory or mechanistic role in apoptotic cell death.Calpastatin, a specific endogenous inhibitor of calpain, has a predicted molecular weight of ~77 kDa and an internal repeat of four homologous domains which allow it to inhibit multiple calpain molecules simultaneously. It functions by binding to calpain when calpain binds calcium. When Calpastatin is subjected to proteolytic digestion, fragments of calpastatin as small as 15 kDa still retain inhibitory activity.

Limitations

This product is for research use only and is not approved for use in humans or in clinical diagnosis. Antibody Pairs are guaranteed for 6 months from date of receipt.

Bioinformatics

• Gene Symbol: CAST