Human/Mouse/Rat Calcineurin B Alexa Fluor® 350-conjugated Antibody

Applications

Please Note: Optimal dilutions should be determined by each laboratory for each application. General Protocols are available in the Technical Information section on our website.

Preparation and Storage

Background: Calcineurin B

Calcineurin, also called Protein Phosphatase 2B, PP2B, PPP2B, Protein Phosphatase 3, and PPP3, is an enzyme that dephosphorylates serine and threonine residues in proteins. It is a heterodimer of a 59,000 dalton catalytic A subunit and a 1,900 dalton regulatory B subunit that is activated by the binding of calcium ions and calmodulin (1). Calcineurin is expressed in many tissues, but its levels are highest in the brain, where it may play a role in learning and memory (2). It has many substrates, including NFAT, a transcription factor that is activated by dephosphorylation (3). Complexes of the immunosuppressants cyclosporin and FK506 with immunophilin proteins such as cyclophilin and FKBP12 are potent and specific inhibitors of Calcineurin activity (4). Alterations in Calcineurin activity are suspected to play a role in cardiac hypertrophy (5) and graft versus host disease in organ transplantation (6).

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Related Research Areas

• Calcium-binding Proteins and Related Molecules
• C-type Lectin Receptors
• Epigenetics
• Intracellular Calcium Signaling in VSMC
• Neurofibrillary Tangle Formation
• Phosphatases and Regulators
• Phosphatases in the Akt Pathway
• Search Kinases and Phosphatases
• Wnt Intracellular Signaling