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Bmi1 (DC9) Mouse mAb #5855

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Western Blotting Image 1: Bmi1 (DC9) Mouse mAb
Western blot analysis of extracts from various cell lines using Bmi1 (DC9) Mouse mAb.

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Supporting Data

REACTIVITY H M R Mk
SENSITIVITY Endogenous
MW (kDa) 41, 43
Source/Isotype Mouse IgG1
Application Key:
  • WB-Western Blotting 
Species Cross-Reactivity Key:
  • H-Human 
  • M-Mouse 
  • R-Rat 
  • Mk-Monkey 
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Product Information

Product Usage Information

Application Dilution
Western Blotting 1:1000

Storage

Supplied in 10 mM sodium HEPES (pH 7.5), 150 mM NaCl, 100 µg/ml BSA, 50% glycerol and less than 0.02% sodium azide. Store at –20°C. Do not aliquot the antibody.

Protocol

Specificity / Sensitivity

Bmi1 (DC9) Mouse mAb recognizes endogenous levels of total Bmi1 protein. This antibody detects a non-specific band around 55 kDa in some cell extracts.

Species Reactivity:

Human, Mouse, Rat, Monkey

Source / Purification

Monoclonal antibody is produced by immunizing animals with recombinant full-length human Bmi1 protein.

Background

The polycomb group (PcG) of proteins contributes to the maintenance of cell identity, stem cell self-renewal, cell cycle regulation, and oncogenesis by maintaining the silenced state of genes that promote cell lineage specification, cell death, and cell-cycle arrest (1-4). PcG proteins exist in two complexes that cooperate to maintain long-term gene silencing through epigenetic chromatin modifications. The first complex, EED-EZH2, is recruited to genes by DNA-binding transcription factors and methylates histone H3 on Lys27. This histone methyl-transferase activity requires the Ezh2, Eed, and Suz12 subunits of the complex (5). Histone H3 methylation at Lys27 facilitates the recruitment of the second complex, PRC1, which ubiquitinylates histone H2A on Lys119 (6). Bmi1 is a component of the PRC1 complex, which together with Ring1 strongly enhances the E3 ubiquitin ligase activity of the Ring2 catalytic subunit (7). Bmi1 plays an important role in the regulation of cell proliferation and senescence through repression of the p16 INK4A and p19 ARF genes and is required for maintenance of adult hematopoietic and neural stem cells (3,4,8-10).

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