Supplier: Biosensis

Monoclonal antibody MC192 against the rat low affinity nerve growth factor receptor (p75NTR) is derived from the fusion of Sp2/0-Ag 14 myeloma cells with mouse immune splenocytes. MC192 monoclonal antibody was originally generated by Chandlers et al. p75NTR was originally discovered as a low affinity nerve growth factor receptor. Later it was found that it was the receptor for all neurotrophins. It mediates signals of neurotrophins for neuronal survival, apoptosis, neurite outgrowth and synaptic plasticity. Recently, it has been revealed that p75NTR is not only acts as the receptor for neurotrophins but also the receptor for many other pathological ligands such as prions, rabies virus and amyloid beta. p75NTR also acts as a co-receptor for NOGO which mediates inhibitory signals of myelin associated protein. p75NTR is highly expressed in a number of non-neuronal and neuronal cells including motor neurons during development and also in damaged neurons. MC192 recognizes the extracellular domain of the neurotrophin receptor p75NTR in rat. MC192 antibody may be used for immunocytochemical localisation of rat cells expressing p75NTR, ELISA and western blot. This antibody has also been used for the construction of the MC192-saporin immunotoxin for specific elimination of neuronal populations in basal forebrain cholinergic neurons to generate an animal model for Alzheimer's disease. Using Flow Cytometry, this antibody has frequently been employed for panning to isolate p75NTR-expressing rat cells. MC192 has a potential use as the ligand for gene delivery into p75NTR-expressing rat cells via a receptor-mediated mechanism. FUNCTION: Low affinity receptor which can bind to NGF, BDNF, NT-3, and NT-4. Can mediate cell survival as well as cell death of neural cells. SUBUNIT: Homodimer; disulfide-linked. Interacts with p75NTR-associated cell death executor. Interacts with NGFRAP1/BEX3. Interacts with TRAF2, TRAF4, TRAF6, PTPN13 and RANBP9. Interacts through TRAF6 with SQSTM1 which bridges NGFR to NTRK1 (By similarity). Interacts with BEX1. SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: Membrane; single-pass type I membrane protein. DOMAIN: Death domain is responsible for interaction with RANBP9. PTM: N- and O-glycosylated. PTM: Phosphorylated on serine residues. SIMILARITY: Contains 1 death domain. SIMILARITY: Contains 4 TNFR-Cys repeats.

Supplier: MP Biomedicals

L-Histidine has been used to study cultures of the human T-lymphoblastic leukemia cell line MOLT-4 to study modulation of apoptosis. Exogenous histidine has been shown to enhance the biosynthesis of lovastatin by cultured Aspergillus terreus. Histidine has been utilised as a single nitrogen source to probe swarming in Pseudomonas aeruginosa on agar. An in vivo study has used L-histidine to diminish the net secretory response of the small intestine of of cholera toxin-challenged mice.

Supplier: G-Biosciences

G-Biosciences offers a wide selection of genomic isolation kits that purify high quality genomic DNA from a variety of sources and for a wide array of applications. G-Biosciences XIT™ DNA kits produce protein-free, high quality DNA through the principle of cell lysis, protein digestion and precipitation and genomic DNA purification. No chloroform or phenol extraction is required. High quality DNA can be isolated from sample types including: animal tissues, cells, whole blood, bacteria, buccal cells, plant tissues, mouse tail, yeast and FFPE tissue. G-Biosciences XIT™ DNA kit procedures remove contaminants and enzyme inhibitors allowing the purified DNA to be ready for immediate use for all downstream analyses. The purified DNA from G-Biosciences XIT™ DNA kits have a A₂₆₀/A₂₈₀ ratio between 1,7 and 1,9 (with the exception of the buccal cells kit with a ratio between 1,8 and 2,0) and are up to 200 kb in size.

Supplier: MP Biomedicals

L-Glutamic Acid Monosodium Salt is used as a neurotransmitter at fast synapses; agonist at kainate, NMDA and quisqualate receptors.