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Products Polyclonal Anti-HEXA
| Catalogue number: | PA1787-2 |
| Price: | $200.00 |
| Reactivities: | Human |
| Applications: | Western Blot |
| Size: | 100?g/vial |
| Gene: | HEXA |
| Swiss prot: | P06865 |
| 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: | HEXA (hexosaminidase A (alpha polypeptide)) is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the HEXA gene. Hexosaminidase A and the cofactor GM2 activator protein catalyze the degradation of the GM2 gangliosides and other molecules containing terminal N-acetyl hexosamines The HEXA gene encodes the alpha subunit of hexosaminidase A , a lysosomal enzyme involved in the breakdown of gangliosides. The HEXA gene is mapped on 15q23. Even though the alpha and beta subunits of hexosaminidase A can both cleave GalNAc residues, only the alpha subunit is able to hydrolyze GM2 gangliosides. The alpha subunit contains a key residue, Arg-424, which is essential for binding the N-acetyl-neuramanic residue of GM2 gangliosides. Chimeric constructs were expressed in HeLa cells and selected constructs were produced in the baculovirus expression system to determine their ability to degrade GM2 ganglioside in the presence of GM2 activator protein. Their results allowed them to define 2 noncontiguous sequences in the alpha subunit (amino acids 1-191 and 403-529) which, when substituted into analogous positions in the beta subunit, conferred activity against the sulfated substrate. |
| References: | 1. Akli, S., Chomel, J.-C., Lacorte, J.-M., Bachner, L., Poenaru, A., Poenaru, L. Ten novel mutations in the HEXA gene in non-Jewish Tay-Sachs patients. Hum. Molec. Genet. 2: 61-67, 1993. 2. Beutler, E., Kuhl, W., Comings, D. Hexosaminidase isozyme in type O Gm2 gangliosidosis (Sandhoff-Jatzkewitz disease). Am. J. Hum. Genet. 27: 628-638, 1975. 3. Chern, C. J., Beutler, E., Kuhl, W., Gilbert, F., Mellman, W. J., Croce, C. M. Characterization of heteropolymeric hexosaminidase A in human x mouse hybrid cells. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 73: 3637-3640, 1976. |
| Additional info: | A synthetic peptide corresponding to a sequence at the C-terminus of human HEXA, different from the related mouse sequence by three amino acids, and from the related rat sequences by four amino acids. |
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