Anti-Glycine Receptor

Specific for the ~48k alpha 1- and alpha 2-subunits of the glycine receptor in Western blots of rat spinal cord and brain stem and in cell extracts. Immunolabeling blocked by preadsorption of antibody with the peptide immunogen. Does not recognize other glycine receptor subunits. Prepared from rabbit serum by affinity purification using a column to which the peptide immunogen was coupled.

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SPECIFICATIONS

Size

200 ug

Applications

IHC, WB

Hosts

Rabbit

Reactivities

Hum, Mouse, Rat

Format

Affinity purified, polyclonal antibody

Presku

OAPC00117

Target

Glycine is an important inhibitory transmitter in the brainstem and spinal cord. Glycine receptors are members of the ligand-gated ion channel family (LGICs) that mediate rapid chemical neurotransmission (Schofield et al., 2003). The binding of glycine to its receptor produces a large increase in chloride conductance, which causes membrane hyperpolarization. Glycine receptors are anchored at inhibitory chemical synapses by a cytoplasmic protein, gephyrin (Fischer et al., 2000). The glycine receptor has been used to great advantage in the identification of the binding sites for alcohol on the LGIC family of proteins (Beckstead et al., 2001; Mihic et al., 1997). These receptors have also been extremely useful in studies of synaptic clustering of receptors (Craig and Lichtman, 2001). The glycine receptor may also act in concert with an NMDAR subunit to form an excitatory receptor (Chatterton et al., 2002).

Weight

~48kDa

Gene Id

25674