Phospho-(Ser) Arg-X-Tyr/Phe-X-pSer Motif Antibody detects endogenous levels of proteins containing the Arg-X-Tyr/Phe-X-pSer motif. This antibody does not cross-react with nonphosphorylated serine or phospho-threonine proteins with the same motif or other phospho-serine/threonine-containing proteins and peptides without this motif. (U.S. Patent No's.: 6,441,140; 6,982,318; 7,259,022; 7,344,714; U.S.S.N. 11,484,485; and all foreign equivalents.)
Source / Purification
Polyclonal antibodies are produced by immunizing animals with Arg-X-Tyr/Phe-X-pSer-containing peptides . Antibodies are purified by protein A and peptide affinity chromatography.
Background
The 14-3-3 proteins are a highly conserved family of proteins involved in the regulation of cell survival, apoptosis, proliferation and checkpoint control (1-5). Binding of 14-3-3 is mediated through phospho-serine-containing proteins (6). Two different phospho-serine containing motifs are found using a degenerate phospho-serine-oriented peptide library technique, RSXS*XP and RXY/FXS*XP (6). Motif 2 (RXY/FXS*XP) is found in critical regulatory proteins including cdc25A, cdc25B, PKCgamma, IRS-1 and BCR (6). Although Phospho-(Ser) Arg-X-Tyr/Phe-X-pSer Motif Antibody binds 14-3-3 binding motif 2 with no requirement for proline in the +2 position, it provides a powerful tool for the discovery and characterization of potential 14-3-3 binding motif 2-containing proteins or other proteins with the RXY/FXS* motif.