Dopamine Transporter (Thr53) Antibody

The dopamine transporter (DAT) is responsible for the reaccumulation of dopamine after it has been released. DAT antibodies and antibodies for other markers of catecholamine biosynthesis are widely used as markers for dopaminergic and noradrenergic neurons in a variety of applications including depression, schizophrenia, Parkinson’s disease and drug abuse (Kish et al., 2001; Zhu et al., 2000; Zhu et al., 1999) . Levels of DAT protein expression are altered by chronic drug administration (Wilson et al., 1996) . It has been shown that phosphorylation at Thr-53 directly affects dopamine influx and amphetamine-stimulated substrate efflux, indicating that the Thr-53 residue plays a major role in transport activity (Foster et al., 2012) .

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Synthetic phospho-peptide corresponding to amino acid residues surrounding Thr53 of rat dopamine transporter, conjugated to keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH) .

Specific for endogenous levels of the ~55 kDa glycosylated form of the DAT protein phosphorylated at Thr53. Relative mobility may vary depending on the state of glycosylation of the DAT protein. The antibody works best in lysates that have not been boiled prior to being run on an SDS-PAGE gel. Immunolabeling is blocked by preadsorption with the phosphopeptide used as antigen, but not by the corresponding non-phosphopeptide.