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Products Polyclonal Anti-GFAP
| Catalogue number: | PA1239 |
| Price: | $200.00 |
| Reactivities: | Human, Mouse, Rat |
| Applications: | Immunohistochemistry, Western Blot |
| Size: | 100ug/vial |
| Gene: | GFAP |
| Swiss prot: | P14136 |
| 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. " |
| Scientific background: | Glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) is an intermediate-filament (IF) protein that is highly specific for cells of astroglial lineage, although its tissue-specific role is speculative. GFAP has been located in rat kidney glomeruli and peritubular fibroblasts, leydig cells of testis, skin keratinocytes, osteocytes of bones, chondrocytes of epiglottis, bronchus, and stellate-shaped cells of the pancreas and liver. Its expression is essential for normal white matter architecture and blood-brain barrier integrity, and its absence leads to late-onset CNS dysmyelination. GFAP has also been shown to play a role in mitosis by adjusting the filament network present in the cell. During mitosis, there is an increase in the amount of phosphorylated GFAP, and a movement of this modified protein to the cleavage furrow. |
| References: | 1. Reeves SA, Helman LJ, Allison A, Israel MA (1989). "Molecular cloning and primary structure of human glial fibrillary acidic protein". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 86 (13): 5178 |
| Additional info: | A synthetic peptide corresponding to a sequence at the C-terminal of human GFAP, identical to the related rat sequence, and different from the related mouse sequence by two amino acids. |
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