Mouse Meprin  alpha Subunit/MEP1A Alexa Fluor™ Plus 680-conjugated Antibody

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Key Product Details

Species Reactivity

Mouse

Applications

Western Blot, Immunoprecipitation

Label

Alexa Fluor Plus 680 (Excitation = 687 nm, Emission = 704 nm)

Antibody Source

Polyclonal Goat IgG

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Product Specifications

Specificity

Detects mouse Meprin alpha Subunit/MEP1A in direct ELISAs and Western blots. In direct ELISAs, less than 20% cross‑reactivity with recombinant human MEP1A is observed and less than 5% cross‑reactivity with recombinant mouse MEP1B is observed.

Clonality

Polyclonal

Host

Goat

Isotype

IgG

Applications

Application
Recommended Usage

Immunoprecipitation

Optimal dilution of this antibody should be experimentally determined.

Western Blot

Optimal dilution of this antibody should be experimentally determined.

Background: Meprin alpha Subunit/MEP1A

Meprins are multimeric proteases composed of alpha and beta subunits, which are members of the astacin family of zinc endopeptidases (1, 2). Both subunits form disulfide‑linked homo- or hetero-oligomers, which are also referred to as Meprin A (composed of alpha subunits with or without beta subunits) and Meprin B (composed of beta subunits only) (3). Although the two subunits share 42% identity in their amino acid sequence, they differ significantly in their oligomeric structure, post-translational processing and subsequently cellular location, and substrate and peptide bond specificity (4). The 760 amino acid sequence of mouse meprin alpha subunit precursor consists of a signal peptide (residues 1‑33), a pro region (residues 34‑77), and a mature chain (residues 78‑760) containing the following domains, catalytic (residues 78‑275), MAM (residues 276‑445), MATH (residues 447‑607), EGF-like (residues 684‑724), transmembrane (residues 727‑754), and cytoplasmic (residues 755‑760) (5). The pro enzyme terminating at residue 615 was expressed and the secreted protein purified from conditioned medium. The molecular masses of recombinant mouse MEP1A are similar to those observed for the alpha subunit of rat Meprin A (6).

References

  1. Bond, J.S. and R.J. Beynon (1995) Protein Sci. 4:1247.
  2. Stocker, W. et al. (1995) Protein Sci. 4:823.
  3. Bertenshaw, G.P. et al. (2001) J. Biol. Chem. 276:13248.
  4. Ishmael, F.T. et al. (2005) J. Biol. Chem. 280:13895.
  5. Jiang, W. et al. (1992) J. Biol. Chem. 267:9185.
  6. Bertenshaw, G.P. et al. (2003) J. Biol. Chem. 278:2522.

Alternate Names

MEP1A, PPHA

Entrez Gene IDs

4224 (Human); 17287 (Mouse); 25684 (Rat)

Gene Symbol

MEP1A

UniProt

NP_032611

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