• Species Reactivity

  Human

• Specificity

  Detects human, mouse, and rat beta -Catenin in Western blots.

• Source

  Monoclonal Mouse IgG    _2A Clone # 196624

• Purification

  Protein A or G purified from hybridoma culture supernatant

• Immunogen

  E. coli-derived recombinant human beta -Catenin    
  Ala2-Leu781    
  Accession # P35222

• Formulation

  Supplied in a saline solution containing BSA and Sodium Azide.

• Label

  Phycoerythrin

Applications

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  Recommended    
  Concentration

  Sample

• Intracellular Staining by Flow Cytometry

  10 μL/10    ⁶ cells

  See below

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Please Note: Optimal dilutions should be determined by each laboratory for each application.  are available in the Technical Information section on our website.

Data Examples

Preparation and Storage

• Shipping

  The product is shipped with polar packs. Upon receipt, store it immediately at the temperature recommended below.

• Stability & Storage

  Protect from light.    Do not freeze.    

• 12 months from date of receipt, 2 to 8 °C as supplied.

Background: beta-Catenin

beta -Catenin is a 94-96 kDa member of the beta -Catenin family, armadillo-repeat superfamily of intracellular molecules. Human beta -Catenin is 781 amino acids (aa) in length and contains three basic regions; there is a "flexible" N-terminus (aa 1-110) that undergoes phosphorylation, O-linked glycosylation, acetylation and ubiquitination, a central region (aa 14-670) that contains 12 armadillo-like repeats and engages in protein-protein interaction, and a "flexible" C-terminus that also undergoes phosphorylation. beta -Catenin is widely, if not ubiquitously expressed, being found in endothelial cells, NKT cells, cortical neurons, neural stem cells, osteoblasts, fibroblasts, skeletal muscle cells, and Tregs. beta -Catenin is perhaps best known as a facilitator for Wnt signaling. In this context, and in the absence of Wnt signaling, non-nuclear or E-Cadherin-associated beta -Catenin is continually synthesized and degraded via a phosphorylation-dependent program. Upon Wnt engagement of its LPR:Fzd receptor complex, phosphorylation stops, allowing for an increase in it half-life and translocation into the nucleus. Here, it binds to TCF, generating a gene-activating transcriptional complex. Notably, Wnt signaling has been described as being  beta -Catenin and Ca  ⁺⁺/non-beta -Catenin based. It now appears they work in tandem, with Ca  ⁺⁺ mobilization facilitating the translocation of beta -Catenin across the nuclear membrane. Human and mouse full-length beta -Catenin shows 99% aa sequence identity.

• Entrez Gene IDs:

  1499 (Human); 12387 (Mouse); 84353 (Rat)

• Alternate Names:

  bCatenin; beta 1 (88kD); beta-Catenin; catenin (cadherin-associated protein), beta 1, 88kDa; catenin beta-1; CTNNB; CTNNB1; DKFZp686D02253; FLJ25606; FLJ37923