Immunogen | SyntheticpeptidecorrespondingtoresiduesnearC-terminusandbeforeAla-richdomainofhumanSir2. |
Epitope | C-terminus |
Clone | E104 |
Host | Rabbit |
Specificity | Theantibodydoesnotcross-reactwithothersirtuinfamilymembers. |
Isotype | IgG |
SpeciesReactivity | |
AntibodyType | MonoclonalAntibody |
EntrezGeneNumber | |
EntrezGeneSummary | Thisgeneencodesamemberofthesirtuinfamilyofproteins,homologstotheyeastSir2protein.Membersofthesirtuinfamilyarecharacterizedbyasirtuincoredomainandgroupedintofourclasses.Thefunctionsofhumansirtuinshavenotyetbeendetermined;however,yeastsirtuinproteinsareknowntoregulateepigeneticgenesilencingandsuppressrecombinationofrDNA.Studiessuggestthatthehumansirtuinsmayfunctionasintracellularregulatoryproteinswithmono-ADP-ribosyltransferaseactivity.TheproteinencodedbythisgeneisincludedinclassIofthesirtuinfamily.Alternativesplicingresultsinmultipletranscriptvariants. |
GeneSymbol | - EC3.5.1.-
- SIR2
- SIR2-like
- SIR2L
- SIR2L2
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PurificationMethod | Unpurified |
UniProtNumber | |
UniProtSummary | FUNCTION:NAD-dependentdeacetylase,whichdeacetylatesthe"Lys-40"ofalpha-tubulin.Involvedinthecontrolofmitoticexitinthecellcycle,probablyviaitsroleintheregulationofCytoskeleton.Despitesomeabilitytodeacetylatehistonesinvitro,itisunlikelyinvivo. CATALYTICACTIVITY:NAD++anacetylprotein=nicotinamide+O-acetyl-ADP-ribose+aprotein. COFACTOR:Binds1zincionpersubunit. ENZYMEREGULATION:InhibitedbySirtinol,A3andM15smallmolecules.Inhibitedbynicotinamide. SUBUNITSTRUCTURE:InteractswithHDAC6,suggestingthattheseproteinsbelongtoalargecomplexthatdeacetylatethecytoskeleton. SUBCELLULARLOCATION:Cytoplasm?cytoskeleton.Note:Colocalizeswithmicrotubules. TISSUESPECIFICITY:Widelyexpressed.Highlyexpressedinheart,brainandskeletalmuscle,whileitisweaklyexpressedinplacentaandlung.Down-regulatedinmanygliomassuggestingthatitmayactasatumorsuppressorgeneinhumangliomaspossiblythroughtheregulationofmicrotubulenetwork. DEVELOPMENTALSTAGE:Peaksduringmitosis.Aftermitosis,itisprobablydegradedbythe26Sproteasome. PTM:PhosphorylatedattheG2/Mtransitionofthecellcycle. SEQUENCESIMILARITIES:Belongstothesirtuinfamily. Contains1deacetylasesirtuin-typedomain. SEQUENCECAUTION:ThesequenceAAF67015.1differsfromthatshown.Reason:Frameshiftatseveralpositions. |
MolecularWeight | ~110kDa |