Description
Product Usage Information
Western Blotting: 1:1000
Immunoprecipitation: 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, Immunoprecipitation
Specificity / Sensitivity
Phospho-ALK (Tyr1282/1283) (D39B2) Rabbit Monoclonal Antibody detects ALK only when phosphorylated at Tyr1282/1283 (equivalent to Tyr342/343 of NPM-ALK). This antibody may cross-react with other overexpressed phospho-tyrosine proteins such as EGFR.
Species Reactivity: Human
Source / Purification
Monoclonal antibody is produced by immunizing animals with a synthetic phosphopeptide corresponding to residues surrounding Tyr1282/1283 of human ALK protein.
Background
Anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) is a tyrosine kinase receptor for pleiotrophin (PTN), a growth factor involved in embryonic brain development (1-3). In ALK-expressing cells, PTN induces phosphorylation of both ALK and the downstream effectors IRS-1, Shc, PLCγ, and PI3 kinase (1). ALK was originally discovered as a nucleophosmin (NPM)-ALK fusion protein produced by a translocation (4). Investigators have found that the NPM-ALK fusion protein is a constitutively active, oncogenic tyrosine kinase associated with anaplastic lymphoma (4). Research literature suggests that activation of PLCγ by NPM-ALK may be a crucial step for its mitogenic activity and involved in the pathogenesis of anaplastic lymphomas (5). A distinct ALK oncogenic fusion protein involving ALK and echinoderm microtubule-associated protein like 4 (EML4) has been described in the research literature from a non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cell line, with corresponding fusion transcripts present in some cases of lung adenocarcinoma. The short, amino-terminal region of the microtubule-associated protein EML4 is fused to the kinase domain of ALK (6-8). Phosphorylation of ALK at Tyr1282/1283 was identified at Cell Signaling Technology (CST) using PhosphoScan , CST's LC-MS/MS platform for phosphorylation site discovery. Phosphorylation of ALK at Tyr1282/1283 was observed in select carcinoma cell lines and tumors (6).
Alternate Names
ALK; ALK receptor tyrosine kinase; ALK tyrosine kinase receptor; Anaplastic lymphoma kinase; anaplastic lymphoma receptor tyrosine kinase; CD246; CD246 antigen; mutant anaplastic lymphoma kinase; NBLST3
