| Immunogen | KLH-conjugatedlinearpeptidecorrespondingtotheN-terminusofhumanHistoneH2BacetylatedatLys5. |
| Epitope | N-terminus |
| Concentration | 1.0mg/mL |
| Host | Rabbit |
| SpeciesReactivity | |
| SpeciesReactivityNote | Human.PredictedtoreactwithVertebratesbasedon100%sequencehomology. |
| AntibodyType | PolyclonalAntibody |
| EntrezGeneNumber | |
| EntrezGeneSummary | HistonesarebasicnuclearproteinsthatareresponsIBLeforthenucleosomestructureofthechromosomalfiberineukaryotes.Nucleosomesconsistofapproximately146bpofDNAwrappedaroundahistoneoctamercomposedofpairsofeachofthefourcorehistones(H2A,H2B,H3,andH4).Thechromatinfiberisfurthercompactedthroughtheinteractionofalinkerhistone,H1,withtheDNAbetweenthenucleosomestoformhigherorderchromatinstructures.ThisgeneisintronlessandencodesamemberofthehistoneH2Bfamily.Transcriptsfromthisgenecontainapalindromicterminationelement. |
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| Modifications | |
| PurificationMethod | ProteinAPurfied |
| UniProtNumber | |
| UniProtSummary | FUNCTION:SwissProt:Q8N257#Corecomponentofnucleosome.NucleosomeswrapandcompactDNAintochromatin,limitingDNAaccessibilitytothecellularmachinerieswhichrequireDNAasatemplate.Histonestherebyplayacentralroleintranscriptionregulation,DNArepair,DNAreplicationandchromosomalstABIlity.DNAaccessibilityisregulatedviaacomplexsetofpost-translationalmodificationsofhistones,alsocalledhistonecode,andnucleosomeremodeling. SIZE:126aminoacids;13908Da SUBUNIT:ThenucleosomeisahistoneoctamercontainingtwomoleculeseachofH2A,H2B,H3andH4assembledinoneH3-H4heterotetramerandtwoH2A-H2Bheterodimers.Theoctamerwrapsapproximately147bpofDNA. SUBCELLULARLOCATION:Nucleus. PTM:MonoubiquitinationofLys-121bytheRNF20/40complexgivesaspecifictagforepigenetictranscriptionalactivationandisalsoprerequisiteforhistoneH3"Lys-4"and"Lys-79"methylation.ItalsofunctionscooperativelywiththeFACTdimertostimulateelongationbyRNApolymeraseII.&PhosphorylatedonSer-15bySTK4/MST1duringapoptosis;whichfacilitatesapoptoticchromatincondensation.AlsophosphorylatedonSer-15inresponsetoDNAdoublestrandbreaks(DSBs),andincorrelationwithsomatichypermutationandimmunoglobulinclass-switchrecombination. SIMILARITY:SwissProt:Q8N257##BelongstothehistoneH2Bfamily. |
| MolecularWeight | ~16kDaobserved |