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| Product By Gene ID | 58 |
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| Alpha-actin/ACTA1 - A skeletal muscle isoform mutated in various myopathies Actin is an abundant cytoskeletal protein involved in a variety of cellular processes such as cell motility, cell division, and muscle contraction. Actin monomers assemble into filaments and can provide a track for transport of cargo by the molecul... Read more. |
| CRISPR/Cas9: Keep your friends close, but your viruses closer "CRISPR", or clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats, is an ancient bacterial mechanism that prevents the invasion of foreign pathogens to a host organism. Specifically, the CRISPR sequence has been identified as a si... Read more. |
| The use of actin as a loading control in research on fruiting-body development and vegetative growth in Sordaria macrospora research Sordaria macrospora is a filamentous fungus that serves as very useful system for scientific research due to a short life cycle and easy manipulation. Just like any other model organism, it is important to have an effective loading control to va... Read more. |
| The use of Beta Actin (AC-15) as a loading control across multiple species Actin is a fundamental component of the cytoskeleton, where it has the ability to create and break down actin filament formation in response to various cell needs. Actin has six highly conserved isoforms, however beta and gamma actin are the two... Read more. |
| The Beta-actin Antibody as a Loading Control One of six actin isoforms so far identified, beta actin is a highly conserved cytoskeletal protein involved in cell structure, motility, and cohesion. We at Novus Biologicals have many different beta-actin products in our catalog, used in areas such a... Read more. |
| Actin Nucleators and Other Developments in Actin Antibody Research A highly conserved, abundant protein found in practically all eukaryotic cells, actin is a monomeric subunit of skeletal muscle thin filaments, and cytoskeleton microfilaments. Actin antibody products are routinely used in cell marker and loading cont... Read more. |
| Profiling the Profilin 1 Antibody Profilin-1, or Pfn-1, is a small actin-binding protein which plays an essential role controlling the growth of microfilaments. Profilin 1 and Profilin 2 have similar biochemical properties but are expressed in different tissues. The Profilin 1 antibod... Read more. |
| The GAPDH Antibody in Western Blot Assays The loading controls on our antibody database are widely used in gel electrophoresis and Western blotting studies. Products like the GAPDH antibody detect "housekeeping" proteins which are abundantly distributed in cells. This makes them useful for ch... Read more. |
| Time to Start Actin Like a Reliable 'Housekeeper'! A growing body of data and studies using actin antibodies supports a view of the actin cytoskeleton of smooth muscle cells as a dynamic structure that plays an integral role in regulating the development of mechanical tension and the material properti... Read more. |
| Using Myosin Antibodies for Tumor Identification Myosin is a super family of actin based molecular motors that hydrolyze ATP and generate physical force to move specific molecules inside the cell. This super family, divided into at least twenty four classes based on head domain sequence similarity a... Read more. |
| "Actin the Fool" about Cytoskeleton Structure Actins are highly conserved, commonly found and abundant proteins involved in several types of cell motility as well as cytoskeleton maintenance. In vertebrate species, three main groups of actin isoforms, the alpha, beta and gamma, have been identifi... Read more. |
| Beta Actin is a Key Player in Embryonic Development and Cell Motility Actins are an essential component of the cytoskeleton, with critical roles in a wide range of cellular processes, including cell migration, division, and regulation of gene expression. These functions are attributed to the ability of actin to form fil... Read more. |
| Actin Dynamics and Endocytic Trafficking Actin is a ubiquitous and an essential component of the cytoskeleton, with critical roles in a wide range of cellular processes. It is abundant protein whose monomers polymerize into polarized actin filaments, within epithelial cells. Filamentous acti... Read more. |
| Could Laminin be Used to Treat Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy? Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a severe muscle wasting condition, causing disability and early death. There is currently no cure or adequate treatment for DMD, but pioneering research indicates that injection of a laminin protein may prevent (or... Read more. |
| Understanding Actin Alpha 2 Smooth Muscle Actins are extremely highly conserved structural proteins found in all eukaryotic cell cytoskeletons that govern cell structure, movement, and shape integrity. Six distinct actin isoforms, each encoded by a different gene and developmentally-regulated... Read more. |
| Repurposing FDA-approved drugs to combat the rise of antibiotic resistance By Beth Melson, MSAntibiotic resistance is a global threat to public health. Widespread, inappropriate use of antibiotics, such as to treat viral infections or promote growth in livestock, has led to increased incid... Read more. |
| Considerations for Quantitative Western blotting By Jamshed Arslan, Pharm. D., PhD. Since its inception in 1979, Western blotting has undergone several developments. The use of radioactive probes was common throughout 1980s, but utilizing secondary antibodies labell... Read more. |
| Migrasomes: A Novel Vesicle Involved in Intercellular Signaling By Christina Towers, PhD What are migrasomes?A novel vesicular organelle was recently discovered in 2015 by a research group at Tsinghua University headed by Dr. Yu that is dependent on cell migration... Read more. |
| Alpha-Adducin - Assembling the cytoskeleton meshwork that underlies the plasma membrane The structure and organization of the plasma membrane is maintained by an underlying network of cytoskeletal proteins including actin and spectrin. Adducin, a member of this protein network, binds to bundles and caps actin filaments and links them... Read more. |
