Immunogen | KLH-conjugatedlinearpeptidecorrespondingtohumanHistoneH2A.Bbd. |
Epitope | a.a.35-55 |
Concentration | PleaserefertotheCertificateofAnalysisforthelot-specificconcentration. |
Host | Rabbit |
Specificity | ThisantibodyrecognizeshumanHistoneH2A.Bbd. |
SpeciesReactivity | |
AntibodyType | PolyclonalAntibody |
EntrezGeneNumber | |
EntrezGeneSummary | HistonesarebasicnuclearproteinsthatareresponsIBLeforthenucleosomestructureofthechromosomalfiberineukaryotes.Nucleosomesconsistofapproximately146bpofDNAwrappedaroundahistoneoctamercomposedofpairsofeachofthefourcorehistones(H2A,H2B,H3,andH4).Thechromatinfiberisfurthercompactedthroughtheinteractionofalinkerhistone,H1,withtheDNAbetweenthenucleosomestoformhigherorderchromatinstructures.ThisgeneencodesamemberofthehistoneH2Afamily.ThisgeneispartofaregionthatisrepeatedthreetimesonchromosomeX,onceinintron22oftheF8geneandtwiceclosertotheXqtelomere.Thisrecordrepresentsthemostcentromericcopywhichisinintron22oftheF8gene.[providedbyRefSeq]. |
GeneSymbol | |
PurificationMethod | AffinityPurfied |
UniProtNumber | |
UniProtSummary | FUNCTION:AtypicalhistoneH2AwhichcanreplaceconventionalH2Ainsomenucleosomes.NucleosomeswrapandcompactDNAintochromatin,limitingDNAaccessibilitytothecellularmachinerieswhichrequireDNAasatemplate.Histonestherebyplayacentralroleintranscriptionregulation,DNArepair,DNAreplicationandchromosomalstability.DNAaccessibilityisregulatedviaacomplexsetofpost-translationalmodificationsofhistones,alsocalledhistonecode,andnucleosomeremodeling.Nucleosomescontainingthishistonearelessrigidandorganizeonly118basepairofDNAinsteadof147inclassicalnucleosomes.TheyareassociatedwithtranscriptionallyactivechromatinandexcludedformBarrbodies.Ref.4Ref.5
SUBUNITSTRUCTURE:ThenucleosomeisahistoneoctamercontainingtwomoleculeseachofH2A,H2B,H3andH4assembledinoneH3-H4heterotetramerandtwoH2A-H2Bheterodimers.Maybeincorporatedintoaproportionofnucleosomes,replacingoneormoreH2Amolecules.
SUBCELLULARLOCATION:Nucleus.Chromosome.Note:AssociatedwiththeactiveXchromosomeandwithautosomes,whileitisabsentfromtheinactiveXchromosomeandexcludedfromBarrbodies.
DOMAIN:ThedockingdomainisresponsiblefortheweakerheterodimerizationwithH2B.Ref.4
MISCELLANEOUS:IncontrasttootherH2Ahistones,itdoesnotcontaintheconservedresiduesthatarethetargetofpost-translationalmodifications.
SEQUENCESIMILARITIES:BelongstothehistoneH2Afamily. |
MolecularWeight | ~17kDaobserved |