Anti-p73/TP73 Antibody Picoband®

P73, also known as tumor protein 73 (TP73), encodes a member of the p53 family of transcription factors involved in cellular responses to stress and development. It is mapped to a region on chromosome 1p36 that is frequently deleted in neuroblastoma and other tumors, and thought to contain multiple tumor suppressor genes. The demonstration that this gene is monoallelically expressed (likely from the maternal allele), supports the notion that it is a candidate gene for neuroblastoma. Furthermore, recent finding are suggesting that over-expression of transcription factors involved in cell cycle regulation and synthesis of DNA in mammalian cells (e.g.: E2F-1) induces the expression of p73. In addition, p73 is a substrate of the c-Abl kinase and that the ability of c-Abl to phosphorylate p73 is markedly increased by gamma-irradiation.

Expressed in striatal neurons of patients with Huntington disease (at protein level) . Brain, kidney, placenta, colon, heart, liver, spleen, skeletal muscle, prostate, thymus and pancreas. Highly expressed in fetal tissue. .

Participates in the apoptotic response to DNA damage. Isoforms containing the transactivation domain are pro-apoptotic, isoforms lacking the domain are anti-apoptotic and block the function of p53 and transactivating p73 isoforms. May be a tumor suppressor protein. .

1. Kaghad, M.; Bonnet, H.; Yang, A.; Creancier, L.; Biscan, J.-C.; Valent, A.; Minty, A.; Chalon, P.; Lelias, J.-M.; Dumont, X.; Ferrara, P.; McKeon, F.; Caput, D. : Monoallelically expressed gene related to p53 at 1p36, a region frequently deleted in neuroblastoma and other human cancers. Cell 90: 809-819, 1997. 2. Agami, R.; Blandino, G.; Oren, M.; Shaul, Y. : Interaction of c-Abl and p73-alpha and their collaboration to induce apoptosis. Nature 399: 809-813, 1999. 3. Yuan, Z.-M.; Shioya, H.; Ishiko, T.; Sun, X.; Gu, J.; Huang, Y. Y.; Lu, H.; Kharbanda, S.; Weichselbaum, R.; Kufe, D. : p73 is regulated by tyrosine kinase c-Abl in the apoptotic response to DNA damage. Nature 399: 814-817, 1999.

Store at -20°C for one year from date of receipt. After reconstitution, at 4°C for one month. It can also be aliquotted and stored frozen at -20°C for six months. Avoid repeated freeze-thaw cycles.