Anti-Tight junction protein ZO-2 TJP2 Antibody Picoband®

TJP2 (Tight Junction Protein 2), also known as Zona Occludens 2 or ZO2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the TJP2 gene. Tight junction proteins (TJPs) belong to a family of membrane-associated guanylate kinase (MAGUK) homologs that are involved in the organization of epithelial and endothelial intercellular junctions. Duclos et al. (1994) mapped the TJP2 gene telomeric to the Friedreich ataxia critical region on chromosome 9q13-q21. TJP2 lies about 70 kb centromeric to the X123 gene and is transcribed in the centromere-to-telomere ion. Using in vitro assays and immunoprecipitation studies, Itoh et al. (1999) showed that the mouse Tjp1, Tjp2, and Tjp3 PDZ1 domains interacted with the C-terminal cytoplasmic domains of Cldn1 through Cldn8. In the mouse inner ear, Walsh et al. (2010) found that Tjp2 expression decreased rapidly between E16.5 and age 1 week to a level in adult mice that was approximately 50% of the level at birth (P0) .

This protein is found in epithelial cell junctions. Isoform A1 is abundant in the heart and brain. Detected in brain and skeletal muscle. It is present almost exclusively in normal tissues. Isoform C1 is expressed at high level in the kidney, pancreas, heart and placenta. Not detected in brain and skeletal muscle. Found in normal as well as in most neoplastic tissues. .

1. Duclos, F., Rodius, F., Wrogemann, K., Mandel, J.-L., Koenig, M. The Friedreich ataxia region: characterization of two novel genes and reduction of the critical region to 300 kb. Hum. Molec. Genet. 3: 909-914, 1994. 2. Itoh, M., Furuse, M., Morita, K., Kubota, K., Saitou, M., Tsukita, S. binding of three tight junction-associated MAGUKs, ZO-1, ZO-2, and ZO-3, with the COOH termini of claudins. J. Cell Biol. 147: 1351-1363, 1999. 3. Walsh, T., Pierce, S. B., Lenz, D. R., Brownstein, Z., Dagan-Rosenfeld, O., Shahin, H., Roeb, W., McCarthy, S., Nord, A. S., Gordon, C. R., Ben-Neriah, Z., Sebat, J., Kanaan, M., Lee, M. K., Frydman, M., King, M.-C., Avraham, K. B. Genomic duplication and overexpression of TJP2/ZO-2 leads to altered expression of apoptosis genes in progressive nonsyndromic hearing loss DFNA51. Am. J. Hum. Genet. 87: 101-109, 2010.

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.

Cell junction, adherens junction. Cell membrane ; Peripheral membrane protein ; Cytoplasmic side . Cell junction, tight junction . Nucleus . Also nuclear under environmental stress conditions and in migratory endothelial cells and subconfluent epithelial cell cultures. .