Immunogen | KLH-conjugated,syntheticpeptidecorrespondingtoaminoacids118-126(CG-AVTKYTSSK)ofhumanHistoneH2B,withanN-terminalCGaddedforconjugationpurposes. |
Host | Rabbit |
Specificity | RecognizesandisspecificforHistoneH2B,MW~15kDa.Anadditionalbandat~23kDaisdetectedinsomesamples,whichlikelycorrespondstoubiquityl-HistoneH2B. |
SpeciesReactivity | - Chicken
- Xenopus
- Human
- Yeast(S.cerevisiae)
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SpeciesReactivityNote | Human,chicken,yeastandXenopus.Othersnottested.Broadspeciescross-reactivityexpectedbasedonsequencehomology. |
AntibodyType | PolyclonalAntibody |
EntrezGeneNumber | |
EntrezGeneSummary | HistonesarebasicnuclearproteinsthatareresponsIBLeforthenucleosomestructureofthechromosomalfiberineukaryotes.Nucleosomesconsistofapproximately146bpofDNAwrappedaroundahistoneoctamercomposedofpairsofeachofthefourcorehistones(H2A,H2B,H3,andH4).Thechromatinfiberisfurthercompactedthroughtheinteractionofalinkerhistone,H1,withtheDNAbetweenthenucleosomestoformhigherorderchromatinstructures.ThisgeneisintronlessandencodesamemberofthehistoneH2Bfamily.Transcriptsfromthisgenecontainapalindromicterminationelement. |
GeneSymbol | - GL105
- H2B
- H2B-GL105
- H2B.1
- H2B.q
- H2B/q
- H2BFQ
- MGC119802
- MGC119804
- MGC129733
- MGC129734
- OTTHUMP00000013920
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PurificationMethod | ProteinAPurfied |
UniProtNumber | |
UniProtSummary | FUNCTION:SwissProt:Q8N257#Corecomponentofnucleosome.NucleosomeswrapandcompactDNAintochromatin,limitingDNAaccessibilitytothecellularmachinerieswhichrequireDNAasatemplate.Histonestherebyplayacentralroleintranscriptionregulation,DNArepair,DNAreplicationandchromosomalstability.DNAaccessibilityisregulatedviaacomplexsetofpost-translationalmodificationsofhistones,alsocalledhistonecode,andnucleosomeremodeling. SIZE:126aminoacids;13908Da SUBUNIT:ThenucleosomeisahistoneoctamercontainingtwomoleculeseachofH2A,H2B,H3andH4assembledinoneH3-H4heterotetramerandtwoH2A-H2Bheterodimers.Theoctamerwrapsapproximately147bpofDNA. SUBCELLULARLOCATION:Nucleus. PTM:MonoubiquitinationofLys-121bytheRNF20/40complexgivesaspecifictagforepigenetictranscriptionalactivationandisalsoprerequisiteforhistoneH3"Lys-4"and"Lys-79"methylation.ItalsofunctionscooperativelywiththeFACTdimertostimulateelongationbyRNApolymeraseII.&PhosphorylatedonSer-15bySTK4/MST1duringapoptosis;whichfacilitatesapoptoticchromatincondensation.AlsophosphorylatedonSer-15inresponsetoDNAdoublestrandbreaks(DSBs),andincorrelationwithsomatichypermutationandimmunoglobulinclass-switchrecombination. SIMILARITY:SwissProt:Q8N257##BelongstothehistoneH2Bfamily. |
MolecularWeight | ~15kDa |