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Products Polyclonal Anti-LAMA2
| Catalogue number: | PA2160 |
| Price: | $200.00 |
| Reactivities: | Human, Mouse, Rat |
| Applications: | Western Blot |
| Size: | 100?g/vial |
| Gene: | LAMA2 |
| Swiss prot: | P24043 |
| 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: | Laminin, alpha-2, also known as LAMA2, is a protein that in humans is encoded by the LAMA2 gene. This gene is mapped to 6q22.33. Laminin, an extracellular protein, is a major component of the basement membrane. It is thought to mediate the attachment, migration, and organization of cells into tissues during embryonic development by interacting with other extracellular matrix components. It is composed of three subunits, alpha, beta, and gamma, which are bound to each other by disulfide bonds into a cross-shaped molecule. This gene encodes the alpha 2 chain, which constitutes one of the subunits of laminin 2 (merosin) and laminin 4 (s-merosin). Mutations in this gene have been identified as the cause of congenital merosin-deficient muscular dystrophy. Two transcript variants encoding different proteins have been found for this gene. |
| References: | 1. Coral-Vazquez, R. M., Rosas-Vargas, H., Meza-Espinosa, P., Mendoza, I., Huicochea, J. C., Ramon, G., Salamanca, F. Severe congenital muscular dystrophy in a Mexican family with a new nonsense mutation (R2578X) in the laminin alpha-2 gene. J. Hum. Genet. 48: 91-95, 2003. 2. Millay, D. P., Sargent, M. A., Osinska, H., Baines, C. P., Barton, E. R., Vuagniaux, G., Sweeney, H. L., Robbins, J., Molkentin, J. D. Genetic and pharmacologic inhibition of mitochondrial-dependent necrosis attenuates muscular dystrophy. Nature Med. 14: 442-447, 2008. |
| Additional info: | A synthetic peptide corresponding to a sequence at the N-terminal of human LAMA2, identical to the related mouse sequence, and different from the related rat sequence by one amino acid. |
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