Anti-Histone deacetylase 2 HDAC2 Antibody

The histone deacetylase (HDAC) family contains multiple members which are divided into four classes. Class I of the HDAC family comprises four members, HDAC1, 2, 3, and 8, each of which contains a deacetylase domain and exhibits a different, individual substrate specificity and function in vivo (1) . HDAC2 was first identified as as a mammalian homolog to the yeast transcriptional regulator RPD3 (2) . HDAC2 forms transcriptional repressor complexes by associating with many different proteins, including YY1, a mammalian zinc-finger transcription factor (2,3) . Thus, it plays an important role in transcriptional regulation, cell cycle progression and developmental events (4) .

HDAC2 antibody is human, mouse and rat reactive. At least two isoforms of HDAC2 are known to exist; this antibody will detect both isoforms. HDAC2 antibody is predicted to not cross-react with other members of the HDAC family.

HDAC2 antibody was raised against an 18 amino acid peptide near the carboxy terminus of human HDAC2. The immunogen is located within the last 50 amino acids of HDAC2.

Responsible for the deacetylation of lysine residues on the N-terminal part of the core histones (H2A, H2B, H3 and H4) . Histone deacetylation gives a tag for epigenetic repression and plays an important role in transcriptional regulation, cell cycle progression and developmental events. Histone deacetylases act via the formation of large multiprotein complexes. Forms transcriptional repressor complexes by associating with MAD, SIN3, YY1 and N-COR. Interacts in the late S-phase of DNA-replication with DNMT1 in the other transcriptional repressor complex composed of DNMT1, DMAP1, PCNA, CAF1. Deacetylates TSHZ3 and regulates its transcriptional repressor activity. Component of a RCOR/GFI/KDM1A/HDAC complex that suppresses, via histone deacetylase (HDAC) recruitment, a number of genes implicated in multilineage blood cell development. May be involved in the transcriptional repression of circadian target genes, such as PER1, mediated by CRY1 through histone deacetylation. Involved in MTA1-mediated transcriptional corepression of TFF1 and CDKN1A.