Anti-CPN1 Antibody Picoband®

Carboxypeptidase N catalytic chain is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the CPN1 gene. Carboxypeptidase N is a plasma metallo-protease that cleaves basic amino acids from the C terminal of peptides and proteins. The enzyme is important in the regulation of peptides like kinins and anaphylatoxins, and has also been known as kininase-1 and anaphylatoxin inactivator. This enzyme is a tetramer comprised of two identical regulatory subunits and two identical catalytic subunits; this gene encodes the catalytic subunit. Mutations in this gene can be associated with angioedema or chronic urticaria resulting from carboxypeptidase N deficiency.

N-alpha-acetyltransferase 15, NatA auxiliary subunit; Gastric cancer antigen Ga19; N-terminal acetyltransferase; NMDA receptor-regulated protein 1; Protein tubedown-1; Tbdn100; NAA15; GA19, NARG1, NATH, TBDN100

Expressed at high levels in testis and in ocular endothelial cells. Also found in brain (corpus callosum), heart, colon, bone marrow and at lower levels in most adult tissues, including thyroid, liver, pancreas, mammary and salivary glands, lung, ovary, urogenital system and upper gastrointestinal tract. Overexpressed in gastric cancer, in papillary thyroid carcinomas and in a Burkitt lymphoma cell line (Daudi) . Specifically suppressed in abnormal proliferating blood vessels in eyes of patients with proliferative diabetic retinopathy. .

Cancer, Cancer Susceptibility, Cardiovascular, Domain Families, Epigenetics and Nuclear Signaling, Hlh/Leucine Zipper, Hypertrophy, Immunology, Innate Immunity, Oncoproteins, Oncoproteins/Suppressors, Proto-Oncogenes, TLR Signaling, Transcription, Transcription Factors

Auxillary subunit of the N-terminal acetyltransferase A (NatA) complex which displays alpha (N-terminal) acetyltransferase activity. The NAT activity may be important for vascular, hematopoietic and neuronal growth and development. Required to control retinal neovascularization in adult ocular endothelial cells. In complex with XRCC6 and XRCC5 (Ku80), up-regulates transcription from the osteocalcin promoter. .

1. Cao, H., Hegele, R. A. DNA polymorphism and mutations in CPN1, including the genomic basis of carboxypeptidase N deficiency. J. Hum. Genet. 48: 20-22, 2003. 2. Gebhard, W., Schube, M., Eulitz, M. cDNA cloning and complete primary structure of the small, active subunit of human carboxypeptidase N (kininase 1) . Europ. J. Biochem. 178: 603-607, 1989. 3. Hegele, R. A. Personal Communication. London, Ontario, Canada 2/24/2003.

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.

Cytoplasm. Nucleus. Mainly cytoplasmic, nuclear in some cases. Present in the free cytosolic and cytoskeleton-bound polysomes, but not in the membrane-bound polysomes.