Anti-Cytokeratin 2e/KRT2 Antibody Picoband® Fluoro488 Conjugated

Keratin 2A also known as keratin 2E or keratin 2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the KRT2A gene. The protein encoded by this gene is a member of the keratin gene family. The type II cytokeratins consist of basic or neutral proteins which are arranged in pairs of heterotypic keratin chains coexpressed during differentiation of simple and stratified epithelial tissues. This type II cytokeratin is expressed largely in the upper spinous layer of epidermal keratinocytes and mutations in this gene have been associated with bullous congenital ichthyosiform erythroderma. The type II cytokeratins are clustered in a region of chromosome 12q12-q13.

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. .

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