Ubiquitin Products

Description

Ubiquitin is a highly conserved protein of approximately 8.5kDa molecular weight, which has a normal role in the targeting of proteins for proteolytic degradation. To perform this function, the protein to be degraded is first covalently attached to the C-terminus of ubiquitin, and the ubiquitinated complex is then recognized by a complex of degradative enzymes. Interestingly, ubiquitin also becomes covalently bonded to many types of pathological inclusions, which appear to be resistant to normal degradation. Therefore, ubiquitin antibodies are very useful for studies of these inclusions. For example, the neurofibrillary tangles and paired helical filaments diagnostic of Alzheimer's disease, Lewy bodies seen in Parkinson's disease, and Pick bodies found in Pick's disease are all heavily ubiquitinated and can be readily visualized with ubiquitin antibodies.

Bioinformatics

Entrez	22190 Mouse 281370 Bovine 50522 Rat 6233 Human 7314 Human
Uniprot	AAH01392 Human NM_002954 Human NP_002945 Human NP_002945.1 Human P0CG53 Bovine P62979 Human Q12841 Human
Product By Gene ID	6233
Alternate Names	RPS27A UBA52 UBB ubiquitin B UBC

Research Areas for Ubiquitin

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Alzheimers Research
Autophagy
Cancer
Membrane Trafficking and Chaperones
Neurodegeneration
Neuronal Cell Markers
Neuroscience
Protein Turnover
Ubiquitin Proteasome Pathway

Related Ubiquitin Blog Posts

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The Latest Research on IBR-type E3 Ubiquitin Ligases E3 ubiquitin ligases are standards in most antibody catalogs. These proteins are essential to the process of ubiquitination, which is expressed in protein pathways throughout the body and is often linked to disease states. It is widely used as a bioma...    Read more.

The Heat is On: Heat Shock Proteins and the Link to Cancer Novus Biologicals offers an extensive antibody catalog targeting heat shock proteins (HSPs). A large protein group covering a number of families, the HSPs are functionally related by their dramatic upregulation in response to stress. Stress triggers m...    Read more.

Using Ubiquitin Antibodies in Various Disease Research Ubiquitin is a small, highly conserved protein which plays an important role in protein breakdown, covalently bonding to proteins to mark them for proteolytic degradation in a process called ubiquitination. Ubiquitin also binds to inclusion bodies (ac...    Read more.

PINK1: All work and no fun The protein PINK1 is a mitochondrial-located serine/threonine kinase (PTK) that maintains organelle function and integrity. It not only protects organelles from cellular stress, but it also uses the selective auto-phagocytosis process for cleaning and...    Read more.

Ubiquitin-Mediated Degradation of Cellular Proteins: The Kiss of Death Ubiquitin is an abundant and essential cellular 9-kd protein that is conserved across evolution from yeast to humans. Ubiquitin is used by cells as a covalent modifier of other proteins both to activate their function and to target them for degradatio...    Read more.

Article Review: Glucose-induced transcriptional regulation in cancer Epigenetic mechanisms have been implicated in many physiological and pathophysiological processes. Among these, histone modifications including methylation, phosphorylation, acetylation and ubiquitination, significantly modify gene expression. In c...    Read more.

There's an autophagy for that! By Christina Towers, PhDA critical mechanism that cells use to generate nutrients and fuel metabolism is through a process called autophagy.  This process is complex and involves over 20 different proteins, most of which are highly conserved acro...    Read more.

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