Catalogue number: |
PA1026 |
Price: |
$200.00 |
Reactivities: |
Human, Mouse, Rat |
Applications: |
Immunohistochemistry, Western Blot |
Size: |
100ug/vial |
Gene: |
GJA1 |
Swiss prot: |
P17302 |
Form: |
Lyophilized |
Format: |
Each vial contains 5mg BSA, 0.9mg NaCl, 0.2mg Na2HPO4, 0.05mg Thimerosal, 0.05mg NaN3. |
Storage temp: |
"At -20 degree C for one year. After reconstitution, at 4 degree C for one month. It can also be aliquotted and stored frozen at -20 degree C for a longer time.
Avoid repeated freezing and thawing.
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Scientific background: |
Connexins 43 (Cx43), also called GAP Junction Protein, alpha-1(GJA1). Connexin 43 is a member of the connexin gene family which abundantly expressed in the heart and liver and was mapped to 6q21-q23.2. Connexin43, the major protein of gap junctions in the heart, is targeted by several protein kinases that regulate myocardial cell-cell coupling. Mutations in the connexin43 gap-junction gene, which lead to abnormally regulated cell-cell communication, are associated with visceroatrial heterotaxia. Cx43 must also play a critical role in the physiology of hearing, presumably by participating in the recycling of potassium to the cochlear endolymph. |
References: |
1. Britz-Cunningham, S. H.; Shah, M. M.; Zuppan, C. W.; Fletcher, W. H. : Mutations of the connexin43 gap-junction gene in patients with heart malformations and defects of laterality. New Eng. J. Med. 332: 1323-1329, 1995.
2. Liu, X. Z.; Xia, X. J.; Adams, J.; Chen, Z. Y.; Welch, K. O.; Tekin, M.; Ouyang, X. M.; Kristiansen, A.; Pandya, A.; Balkany, T.; Arnos, K. S.; Nance, W. E. : Mutations in GJA1 (connexin 43) are associated with non-syndromic autosomal recessive deafness. Hum. Molec. Genet. 10: 2945-2951, 2001. |
Additional info: |
A synthetic peptide corresponding to a sequence at the C-terminal of human Connexin 43, identical to the related rat and mouse sequences. |