Product Usage Information
For optimal ChIP results, use 5 μL of antibody and 10 μg of chromatin (approximately 4 × 10 6 cells) per IP. This antibody has been validated using SimpleChIP ® Enzymatic Chromatin IP Kits.
Western Blotting: 1:1000
Chromatin IP: 1:100
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
Available protocols: Western Blotting, Chromatin IP
Specificity / Sensitivity
Crotonyl-Histone H3 (Lys14) (E9X3B) Rabbit Monoclonal Antibody recognizes endogenous levels of histone H3 protein only when crotonylated on Lys14. This antibody does not cross-react with non-crotonylated, acetylated, propionylated, or butyrylated Lys14. This antibody shows some cross-reactivity with histone H3 that is butyrylated on Lys14, crotonylated on Lys23, and cross-reactivity with histone H2B that is crotonylated on Lys20.
Species Reactivity: Human, Mouse, Rat, Monkey
Source / Purification
Monoclonal antibody is produced by immunizing animals with a synthetic peptide corresponding to residues surrounding crotonylated Lys14 of human histone H3 protein.
Background
The nucleosome, made up of four core histone proteins (H2A, H2B, H3, and H4), is the primary building block of chromatin. Originally thought to function as a static scaffold for DNA packaging, histones have now been shown to be dynamic proteins, undergoing multiple types of post-translational modifications, including acetylation, phosphorylation, methylation, and ubiquitination (1,2). Histone crotonylation is an evolutionarily conserved process that is correlated with the amount of available cellular crotonyl-CoA. The addition of crotonyl groups is facilitated by CBP, p300, as well as the conserved MOF enzyme (3,4). Crotonylation is generally found at actively transcribed gene promoters, and has been uniquely implicated in male germ cell gene expression (3,5). While structurally similar to acetyl groups, crotonyl groups are not read by bromodomains, and are instead read by YEATS and DPF domains (6-8). Key chromatin regulators have been shown to have great affinity to crotonyl marks, including MYST3 and DPF2, a member of the BAF chromatin remodeling complex (9). Much like acetylation, crotonylation is dynamically regulated, and class I deacetylases HDAC1/2/3 have been shown to be capable of decrotonylation (10,11). Furthermore, crotonylation can be negatively regulated by CDYL, which can convert crotonyl-CoA to β-hydroxybutyryl-CoA (12). Crotonylation has been linked to metabolic state, as limited energy sources cause a global reduction in H3K9 acetylation and an increase in H3K9 crotonylation (13). While crotonylation is generally found at active genes, H3K27cr is recognized by GAS41 along with the SIN3A-HDAC1 corepressive complex and is associated with a gene repression program distinct from H3K27 trimethylation (14).
Alternate Names
H3; H3 clustered histone 1; H3 histone family, member A; H3/A; H31; H3C1; H3C10; H3C11; H3C12; H3C2; H3C3; H3C4; H3C6; H3C7; H3C8; H3FA; H3FB; H3FC; H3FC HIST1H3C; H3FD; H3FF; H3FH; H3FI; H3FJ; H3FK; H3FL; HIST1H3A; HIST1H3B; HIST1H3C; HIST1H3D; HIST1H3E; HIST1H3F; HIST1H3G; HIST1H3H; HIST1H3I; HIST1H3J; histone 1, H3a; histone cluster 1 H3 family member a; histone cluster 1, H3a; Histone H3; Histone H3.1; Histone H3/a; Histone H3/b; Histone H3/c; Histone H3/d; Histone H3/f; Histone H3/h; Histone H3/i; Histone H3/j; Histone H3/k; Histone H3/l
