Description
Product Usage Information
Western Blotting: 1:1000
Immunoprecipitation: 1:50
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. For a carrier free (BSA and azide free) version of this product see product # 31924 .
Protocol
Available protocols: Western Blotting, Immunoprecipitation
Specificity / Sensitivity
Bad (11E3) Rabbit Monoclonal Antibody detects endogenous levels of total Bad protein.
Species Reactivity: Human, Mouse, Rat
Source / Purification
Monoclonal antibody is produced by immunizing animals with a synthetic peptide corresponding to residues surrounding Ala107 of Bad.
Background
Bad is a proapoptotic member of the Bcl-2 family that promotes cell death by displacing Bax from binding to Bcl-2 and Bcl-xL (1,2). Survival factors, such as IL-3, inhibit the apoptotic activity of Bad by activating intracellular signaling pathways that result in the phosphorylation of Bad at Ser112 and Ser136 (2). Phosphorylation at these sites promotes binding of Bad to 14-3-3 proteins to prevent an association between Bad with Bcl-2 and Bcl-xL (2). Akt phosphorylates Bad at Ser136 to promote cell survival (3,4). Bad is phosphorylated at Ser112 both and by p90RSK (5,6) and mitochondria-anchored PKA (7). Phosphorylation at Ser155 in the BH3 domain by PKA plays a critical role in blocking the dimerization of Bad and Bcl-xL (8-10).
Alternate Names
BAD; BBC2; BBC6; Bcl-2-binding component 6; Bcl-2-like protein 8; BCL-X/BCL-2 binding protein; Bcl-XL/Bcl-2-associated death promoter; Bcl2 antagonist of cell death; BCL2 associated agonist of cell death; BCL2-antagonist of cell death protein; Bcl2-associated agonist of cell death; BCL2-binding component 6; BCL2-binding protein; Bcl2-L-8; BCL2L8
