Description
Product Usage Information
Western Blotting: 1:1000
Storage
Supplied in 10 mM sodium HEPES (pH 7.5), 150 mM NaCl, 100 µg/ml BSA and 50% glycerol. Store at -20°C. Do not aliquot the antibody.
Protocol
Available protocols: Western Blotting
Specificity / Sensitivity
Phospho-GSK-3 beta (Thr390) Antibody detects endogenous levels of human GSK-3β protein only when phosphorylated at Thr390.
Species Reactivity: Human
Source / Purification
Polyclonal antibodies are produced by immunizing animals with a synthetic phosphopeptide corresponding to residues surrounding Thr390 of human GSK-3β. Antibodies are purified by peptide affinity chromatography.
Background
Glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK-3) was initially identified as an enzyme that regulates glycogen synthesis in response to insulin (1). GSK-3 is a ubiquitously expressed serine/threonine protein kinase that phosphorylates and inactivates glycogen synthase. GSK-3 is a critical downstream element of the PI3K/Akt cell survival pathway whose activity can be inhibited by Akt-mediated phosphorylation at Ser21 of GSK-3α and Ser9 of GSK-3β (2,3). GSK-3 has been implicated in the regulation of cell fate in and is a component of the Wnt signaling pathway required for and mammalian development (4). GSK-3 has been shown to regulate cyclin D1 proteolysis and subcellular localization (5). The phosphorylation of GSK-3β at Thr390 was found to be a possible substrate of p38 MAPK and was reported by several labs using phosphoproteomic analysis on mitotic cell extracts (6-10). Phosphorylation of this site was also identified at Cell Signaling Technology (CST) using PhosphoScan , CST's LC-MS/MS platform for modification site discovery (11). Please visit PhosphoSitePlus , CST's modification site knowledgebase, at www.phosphosite.org for more information.
Alternate Names
glycogen synthase kinase 3 beta; Glycogen synthase kinase-3 beta; GSK-3 beta; GSK3B; GSK3beta; GSK3beta isoform; Serine/threonine-protein kinase GSK3B
