Phospho-Akt (Ser473) (193H12)

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Phospho-Akt (Ser473) (193H12) Rabbit mAb (Alexa Fluor^® 488 Conjugate) #2336

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Applications	Reactivity	Sensitivity	Isotype
F	H M R	Endogenous	Rabbit IgG

Applications Key:  F=Flow Cytometry
Reactivity Key:  H=Human  M=Mouse  R=Rat
Species cross-reactivity is determined by western blot. Species enclosed in parentheses are predicted to react based on 100% sequence homology.

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Specificity / Sensitivity

Phospho-Akt (Ser473) (193H12) Rabbit mAb (Alexa Fluor^® 488 Conjugate) detects endogenous levels of Akt only when phosphorylated at Ser473.

Source / Purification

Monoclonal antibody is produced by immunizing animals with a synthetic phosphopeptide corresponding to residues around Ser473 of mouse Akt. The antibody was conjugated to Alexa Fluor^® 488 under optimal conditions with an F/P ratio of 2-6.

Description

This Cell Signaling Technology antibody is conjugated to Alexa Fluor^® 488 fluorescent dye and tested in-house for direct flow cytometric analysis of human cells. The unconjugated Phospho-Akt (Ser473) (193H12) Rabbit mAb #4058 reacts with phospho-Akt (Ser473) from human, mouse and rat. CST expects that Phospho-Akt (Ser473) (193H12) Rabbit mAb (Alexa Fluor^® 488 Conjugate) will also recognize phospho-Akt (Ser473) in these species.

Background

Akt, also referred to as PKB or Rac, plays a critical role in controlling survival and apoptosis (1-3). This protein kinase is activated by insulin and various growth and survival factors to function in a wortmannin-sensitive pathway involving PI3 kinase (2,3). Akt is activated by phospholipid binding and activation loop phosphorylation at Thr308 by PDK1 (4) and by phosphorylation within the carboxy terminus at Ser473. The previously elusive PDK2 responsible for phosphorylation of Akt at Ser473 has been identified as mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) in a rapamycin-insensitive complex with rictor and Sin1 (5,6). Akt promotes cell survival by inhibiting apoptosis through phosphorylation and inactivation of several targets, including Bad (7), forkhead transcription factors (8), c-Raf (9), and caspase-9. PTEN phosphatase is a major negative regulator of the PI3 kinase/Akt signaling pathway (10). LY294002 is a specific PI3 kinase inhibitor (11). Another essential Akt function is the regulation of glycogen synthesis through phosphorylation and inactivation of GSK-3α and β (12,13). Akt may also play a role in insulin stimulation of glucose transport (12). In addition to its role in survival and glycogen synthesis, Akt is involved in cell cycle regulation by preventing GSK-3β-mediated phosphorylation and degradation of cyclin D1 (14) and by negatively regulating the cyclin dependent kinase inhibitors p27 Kip (15) and p21 Waf1/CIP1 (16). Akt also plays a critical role in cell growth by directly phosphorylating mTOR in a rapamycin-sensitive complex containing raptor (17). More importantly, Akt phosphorylates and inactivates tuberin (TSC2), an inhibitor of mTOR within the mTOR-raptor complex (18,19).

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16. Zhou, B.P. et al. (2001) Nat Cell Biol 3, 245-52.
17. Navé, B.T. et al. (1999) Biochem J 344 Pt 2, 427-31.
18. Inoki, K. et al. (2002) Nat Cell Biol 4, 648-57.
19. Manning, B.D. et al. (2002) Mol Cell 10, 151-62.

Application References

• Kalaitzidis, D. and Neel, B.G. (2008) PLoS One 3, e3776. Applications: Flow Cytometry
• Anand, S. et al. (2011) Blood 118, 1610-21. Applications: Flow Cytometry

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Rabbit Monoclonals Produced Using Epitomics® Technology, U.S. Patent No. 5,675,063.Alexa Fluor® is a registered trademark of Molecular Probes, Inc.

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