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alpha Tubulin 4a Products

Antibodies
Lysates
alpha Tubulin 4a Overexpressi ...
alpha Tubulin 4a Overexpression Ly...
NBL1-17433
Species: Hu
Applications: WB
Proteins
Recombinant Human alpha Tubul ...
Recombinant Human alpha Tubulin 4a...
H00007277-P01
Species: Hu
Applications: WB, ELISA, MA, PAGE, AP

Description

Microtubules are involved in a wide variety of cellular activities ranging from mitosis and transport events to cell movement and the maintainance of cell shape. Tubulin itself is a globular protein which consists of two polypeptides (alpha and beta tubulin). Alpha and beta tubulin dimers are assembled to 13 protofilaments that form a microtubule of 22 nm diameter. Tyrosine ligase ads a C-terminal tyrosin to monomeric alpha tubulin. Assembled microtubules can again be detyrosinated by a cytoskeleton associated carboxypeptidase. Detyrosinated alpha tubulin is referred to as Glu-tubulin. Another post-translational modification of detyrosinated alpha tubulin is C-terminal polyglutamylation which is characteristic for microtubules in neuronal cells and the mitotic spindle. Alpha tubulin is not suitable as loading control in adipose tissue as expression of tubulin in adipose tissue is very low ( Spiegelman and Farmer, Cell, 1982, 29(1):53-60) in cells undergoing adipose differentiation actin synthesis decreases by 90%. Excellent as a protein loading control antibody.

Bioinformatics

Entrez Mouse
Rat
Human
Uniprot Human
Human
Human
Product By Gene ID 7277
Alternate Names
  • alpha 1 (testis specific)
  • Alpha-tubulin 1
  • FLJ30169
  • H2-ALPHA
  • Testis-specific alpha-tubulin
  • TUBA1
  • Tubulin alpha-1 chain
  • tubulin alpha-4A chain
  • Tubulin H2-alpha
  • tubulin, alpha 1
  • tubulin, alpha 4a

Research Areas for alpha Tubulin 4a

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Cell Biology
Cytoskeleton Markers
Loading Controls
Stem Cell Markers

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