Calnexin Polyclonal Antibody, Bethyl Laboratories

Description

• The recommended shelf life for this product is 1 year from date of receipt
• Application Note: For IHC, epitope retrieval with citrate buffer pH 6.0 is recommended for FFPE tissue sections
• Based on 100% sequence identity, this antibody is predict Calnexin, also referred to as IP90, p88 and p90, is an ∽90 kDa integral membrane protein of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER)
• Many resident ER proteins act as molecular chaperones and participate in the proper folding of polypeptides and their assembly into multisubunit proteins
• Studies indicate that calnexin associates with the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I heavy chains, partial complexes of the T cell receptor and B cell membrane immunoglobulin, but not with completed receptor complexes
• It has been shown that calnexin is a chaperone that retains incompletely or improperly folded proteins in the ER
• The sequence Lys-Asp-Glu-Leu (KDEL) or a closely related sequence, is present at the carboxy-terminus of soluble ER resident proteins such as GRP78 and GRP94 and protein disulfide isomerase
• Integral membrane ER resident proteins, like calnexin, often lack this KDEL sequence but contain positively charged cytosolic residues that ensure ER retention
• Calnexin contains a large ER luminal domain (461 amino acids), a transmembrane segment (22 amino acids), and a cytoplasmic tail (89 amino acids).