Drosophila ICE (drICE) Antibody recognizes endogenous levels of total drICE protein, including both full-length and cleaved protein products.
Source / Purification
Polyclonal antibodies are produced by immunizing animals with a synthetic peptide corresponding to residues surrounding Asp230 ofDrosophilaICE (drICE) protein. Antibodies are purified by protein A and peptide affinity chromatography.
Background
Cell death in the fruit flyDrosophila melanogasteris regulated by many of the same stimuli as mammalian cell death (1). TheDrosophilagenome contains seven caspase genes; three encode initiator caspases and four encode effector caspases (reviewed in 2). drICE is a cysteine protease that cleaves baculovirus p35 and lamin DmOin vitroand acts downstream of rpr (3). drICE is proteolytically processed during apoptosis into active p21 and p12 subunits. Comparison of thein vivoactivity between drICE and Dcp-1 has shown that drICE is a more effective inducer of apoptosis than Dcp-1, which plays a role in determining the rate of cell death (4).