Anti-Aquaporin 6 Antibody, kidney specific form

Water is a critical component of all living cells. Interestingly, tissue membranes show a great degree of water permeability. Mammalian red cells, renal proximal tubules, and descending thin limb of Henle are extraordinarily permeable to water. Water crosses hydrophobic plasma membranes either by simple diffusion or through a facilitative transport mechanism mediated by special protein "aquaporin". Over the last decade, genes for several members of aquaporin family have been cloned, expressed, and their distribution studied in many tissues. Aquaporin-0 or MIP26 (major intrinsic protein 26 kDa), and Aquaporin-1 (purified from red cells) also called CHIP-28 (channel forming integral protein, 28 kDa; 268 AA; gene locus 7p14) has been the foundation of the growing family of aquaporins. The lens specific Aquaporin-0 represents up to 80% of total lens membrane protein. Defects in MIP26 are a cause of autosomal dominant cataract. The cataract Fraser mutation (CAT-FR or Shriveled) is a transposon-induced splicing error that substitutes a long terminal repeat sequence for the c-terminus of MIP. The lens opacity mutation (LOP) is an AA substitution that inhibits targeting of MIP to the cell membrane. Aquaporin-6 (WCH3 or hKID or AQP2-like; 282 aa; 29 kDa; chromosome 12q13) is found only in the kidney with low water permeability. Aquaporin families of proteins are predicted to contain six transmembrane domains. The N and C-terminus are predicted to be cytoplasmic. Aquaporin-6 shows greatest homology with hMIP (48%) and hAQP-2 (52%). It also has similarity with human MIWC (AQP4; 34%), CHIP-28 (AQP1; 38%), and GLIP (AQP3; 22%).

Water is a critical component of all living cells. Interestingly, tissue membranes show a great degree of water permeability. Mammalian red cells, renal proximal tubules, and descending thin limb of Henle are extraordinarily permeable to water. Water crosses hydrophobic plasma membranes either by simple diffusion or through a facilitative transport mechanism mediated by special protein "aquaporin". Over the last decade, genes for several members of aquaporin family have been cloned, expressed, and their distribution studied in many tissues. Aquaporin-0 or MIP26 (major intrinsic protein 26 kDa), and Aquaporin-1 (purified from red cells) also called CHIP-28 (channel forming integral protein, 28 kDa; 268 AA; gene locus 7p14) has been the foundation of the growing family of aquaporins. The lens specific Aquaporin-0 represents up to 80% of total lens membrane protein. Defects in MIP26 are a cause of autosomal dominant cataract. The cataract Fraser mutation (CAT-FR or Shriveled) is a transposon-induced splicing error that substitutes a long terminal repeat sequence for the c-terminus of MIP. The lens opacity mutation (LOP) is an AA substitution that inhibits targeting of MIP to the cell membrane. Aquaporin-6 (WCH3 or hKID or AQP2-like; 282 aa; 29 kDa; chromosome 12q13) is found only in the kidney with low water permeability. Aquaporin families of proteins are predicted to contain six transmembrane domains. The N and C-terminus are predicted to be cytoplasmic. Aquaporin-6 shows greatest homology with hMIP (48%) and hAQP-2 (52%). It also has similarity with human MIWC (AQP4; 34%), CHIP-28 (AQP1; 38%), and GLIP (AQP3; 22%)

A 19 AA synthetic peptide within the carboxy terminal domain of human AQP6 (Ma et al. 1996) was selected for antibody production. This domain is predicted to be cytoplasmic.

Epitope: kidney specific form

Anti-Aquaporin 6 Antibody, kidney specific form is an antibody against Aquaporin 6 for use in ELISA & WB.

Research Category
Neuroscience

Research Sub Category
Ion Channels & Transporters

Western blot: 1-10 μg/mL using Chemiluminescence technique Immunohistochemistry: We recommend using the affinity purified antibody at 2-10 μg/mL in paraformaldehyde fixed sections of tissues.

ELISA: 0.5-1.0 μg/mL

Optimal working dilutions must be determined by end user.

Affinity Purified immunoglobulin in PBS containing 0.1% BSA as stabilizer. No preservative.

Maintain frozen at -20°C in undiluted aliquots for up to 12 months.

Concentration: Please refer to the Certificate of Analysis for the lot-specific concentration.

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