Product overview
Description Anti-VPS4A rabbit polyclonal antibody
Applications ELISA, IHC
Immunogen Synthetic peptide of human VPS4A
Reactivity Human, Mouse, Rat
Content 0.6 mg/ml
Host species Rabbit
Ig class Immunogen-specific rabbit IgG
Purification Antigen affinity purification
Target information
Symbol VPS4A
Full name vacuolar protein sorting 4 homolog A (S. cerevisiae)
Synonyms SKD1; SKD2; VPS4; SKD1A; VPS4-1
Swissprot Q9UN37
Target Background
The protein encoded by this gene is a member of the AAA protein family (ATPases associated with diverse cellular activities), and is the homolog of the yeast Vps4 protein. In humans, two paralogs of the yeast protein have been identified. The former share a high degree of aa sequence similarity with each other, and also with yeast Vps4 and mouse Skd1 proteins. The mouse Skd1 (suppressor of K+ transport defect 1) has been shown to be really an yeast Vps4 ortholog. Functional studies indicate that both human paralogs associate with the endosomal compartments, and are involved in intracellular protein trafficking, similar to Vps4 protein in yeast. The gene encoding this paralog has been mapped to chromosome 16; the gene for the other resides on chromosome 18.