Anti-HAP1 Antibody Picoband®

Huntingtin-associated protein 1 (HAP1) is a protein which in humans is encoded by the HAP1 gene. Huntington's disease (HD), a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by loss of striatal neurons, is caused by an expansion of a polyglutamine tract in the HD protein huntingtin. This gene encodes a protein that interacts with huntingtin, with two cytoskeletal proteins (dynactin and pericentriolar autoantigen protein 1), and with a hepatocyte growth factor-regulated tyrosine kinase substrate. The interactions with cytoskeletal proteins and a kinase substrate suggest a role for this protein in vesicular trafficking or organelle transport. Several alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been described for this gene.

Required for the phosphorylation of the deoxyribonucleosides deoxycytidine (dC), deoxyguanosine (dG) and deoxyadenosine (dA) . Has broad substrate specificity, and does not display selectivity based on the chirality of the substrate. It is also an essential enzyme for the phosphorylation of numerous nucleoside analogs widely employed as antiviral and chemotherapeutic agents.

1. Bertaux, F., Sharp, A. H., Ross, C. A., Lehrach, H., Bates, G. P., Wanker, E. HAP1-huntingtin interactions do not contribute to the molecular pathology in Huntington's disease transgenic mice. FEBS Lett. 426: 229-232, 1998. 2. Chan, E. Y. W., Nasir, J., Gutekunst, C.-A., Coleman, S., Maclean, A., Maas, A., Metzler, M., Gertsenstein, M., Ross, C. A., Nagy, A., Hayden, M. R. Targeted disruption of Huntingtin-associated protein-1 (Hap1) results in postnatal death due to depressed feeding behavior. Hum. Molec. Genet. 11: 945-959, 2002. 3. Dragatsis, I., Zeitlin, S., Dietrich, P. Huntingtin-associated protein 1 (Hap1) mutant mice bypassing the early postnatal lethality are neuroanatomically normal and fertile but display growth retardation. Hum. Molec. Genet. 13: 3115-3125, 2004.

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.