This antibody is prepared by Saturated Ammonium Sulfate (SAS) precipitation followed by dialysis against PBS.
Immunogen
This Drosophila Parkin antibody is generated from rabbits immunized with a KLH conjugated synthetic peptide between 82-111 amino acids from the N-terminal region of human Drosophila Parkin.
Parkin is thought to play a role in the ubiquitin/proteasome pathway for protein degradation. The amino terminus bears sequence homology to ubiquitin while functionally it acts as a RING-type ubiquitin protein ligase (E3) that coordinates the transfer of ubiquitin to substrate proteins, thus targeting them for degradation by the proteasome. Mutations in the human version of the protein are known to cause autosomal recessive juvenile parkinsonism.