Anti-NDE1 Antibody Picoband®

Nuclear distribution protein nudE homolog 1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the NDE1 gene. This gene encodes a member of the nuclear distribution E (NudE) family of proteins. The encoded protein is localized at the centrosome and interacts with other centrosome components as part of a multiprotein complex that regulates dynein function. This protein plays an essential role in microtubule organization, mitosis and neuronal migration. Mutations in this gene cause lissencephaly 4, a disorder characterized by lissencephaly, severe brain atrophy, microcephaly, and severe cognitive disability. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants.

Acts as component of the MCM2-7 complex (MCM complex) which is the putative replicative helicase essential for 'once per cell cycle' DNA replication initiation and elongation in eukaryotic cells. The active ATPase sites in the MCM2-7 ring are formed through the interaction surfaces of two neighboring subunits such that a critical structure of a conserved arginine finger motif is provided in trans relative to the ATP-binding site of the Walker A box of the adjacent subunit. The six ATPase active sites, however, are likely to contribute differentially to the complex helicase activity. Interacts with MCMBP.

1. Alkuraya, F. S., Cai, X., Emery, C., Mochida, G. H., Al-Dosari, M. S., Felie, J. M., Hill, R. S., Barry, B. J., Partlow, J. N., Gascon, G. G., Kentab, A., Jan, M., Shaheen, R., Feng, Y., Walsh, C. A. Human mutations in NDE1 cause extreme microcephaly with lissencephaly. Am. J. Hum. Genet. 88: 536-547, 2011. Note: Erratum: Am. J. Hum. Genet. 88: 677 only, 2011. 2. Bakircioglu, M., Carvalho, O. P., Khurshid, M., Cox, J. J., Tuysuz, B., Barak, T., Yilmaz, S., Caglayan, O., Dincer, A., Nicholas, A. K., Quarrell, O., Springell, K., and 11 others. : The essential role of centrosomal NDE1 in human cerebral cortex neurogenesis. Am. J. Hum. Genet. 88: 523-535, 2011. 3. Burdick, K. E., Kamiya, A., Hodgkinson, C. A., Lencz, T., DeRosse, P., Ishizuka, K., Elashvili, S., Arai, H., Goldman, D., Sawa, A., Malhotra, A. K. Elucidating the relationship between DISC1, NDEL1 and NDE1 and the risk for schizophrenia: evidence of epistasis and competitive binding. Hum. Molec. Genet. 17: 2462-2473, 2008.

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.