Description
Product Usage Information
Western Blotting: 1:1000
Fluorescent Western: 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
Available protocols: Western Blotting, Fluorescent Western
Specificity / Sensitivity
Ezh2 (AC22) Mouse Monoclonal Antibody detects endogenous levels of total Ezh2 protein.
Species Reactivity: Human, Mouse, Rat, Monkey
Source / Purification
Monoclonal antibody is produced by immunizing animals with Ezh2 recombinant protein containing human Ezh2 residues 351-453.
Background
The polycomb group (PcG) proteins are involved in maintaining the silenced state of several developmentally regulated genes and contribute to the maintenance of cell identity, cell cycle regulation, and oncogenesis (1,2). Enhancer of zeste homolog 2 (Ezh2), a member of this large protein family, contains four conserved regions, including domain I, domain II, and a cysteine-rich amino acid stretch that precedes the carboxy-terminal SET domain (3). The SET domain has been linked with histone methyltransferase (HMTase) activity. Moreover, mammalian Ezh2 is a member of a histone deacetylase complex that functions in gene silencing, acting at the level of chromatin structure (4). Ezh2 complexes methylate histone H3 at Lys9 and 27 , which is thought to be involved in targeting transcriptional regulators to specific loci (5). Ezh2 is deregulated in various tumor types, and its role, both as a primary effector and as a mediator of tumorigenesis, has become a subject of increased interest (6).
Alternate Names
enhancer of zeste 2; enhancer of zeste 2 polycomb repressive complex 2 subunit; Enhancer of zeste homolog 2; enhancer of zeste homolog 2 (Drosophila); ENX-1; ENX1; EZH1; EZH2; EZH2b; Histone-lysine N-methyltransferase EZH2; KMT6; KMT6A; Lysine N-methyltransferase 6; MGC9169; WVS; WVS2
