Description
Product Usage Information
Western Blotting: 1:1000
Immunoprecipitation: 1:100
Storage
Supplied in 10 mM sodium HEPES (pH 7.5), 150 mM NaCl, 100 µg/ml BSA, 50% glycerol and less than 0.02% sodium azide. Store at -20°C. Do not aliquot the antibody.
Protocol
Available protocols: Western Blotting, Immunoprecipitation
Specificity / Sensitivity
APC3 (D3I1V) Rabbit Monoclonal Antibody recognizes endogenous levels of total APC3 protein. This antibody does not cross-react with either APC8/CDC23 or APC6/CDC16.
Species Reactivity: Human, Mouse, Rat, Monkey
Source / Purification
Monoclonal antibody is produced by immunizing animals with a synthetic peptide corresponding to residues near the carboxy terminus of human APC3 protein.
Background
Cell proliferation in all eukaryotic cells depends strictly upon the ubiquitin ligase (E3) activity of the anaphase promoting complex/cyclosome (APC/C), whose main function is to trigger the transition of the cell cycle from metaphase to anaphase. APC/C performs its various functions by promoting the assembly of polyubiquitin chains on substrate proteins, which targets these proteins for degradation by the 26S proteasome (1,2). In humans, twelve different APC/C subunits have been identified. Like all E3 enzymes, APC/C utilizes ubiquitin residues that have been activated by E1 enzymes and then transferred to E2 enzymes. Indeed, APC/C has been shown to interact with UBE2S and UBE2C E2 enzymes, in part, via the RING-finger domain-containing subunit, APC11 (3-5). APC/C activity is also strictly dependent upon its association with multiple cofactors. For example, the related proteins, Cdc20 and Cdh1/FZR1, participate in the recognition of APC/C substrates by interacting with specific recognition elements in these substrates (6), called D-boxes (7) and KEN-boxes (8). Anaphase-promoting complex subunit 3 (APC3), APC8, and APC6 are components of the tetratricopeptide (TPR) APC/C subcomplex (9). The presence of APC3 is required for binding of Cdh1/FZR1 to the APC/C. This suggests that APC/C is activated by an association between Cdh1/FZR1 with APC3 that enables APC/C to recognize the D-box of substrates (6,10). APC3 localizes to the centrosome and the mitotic spindle, suggesting that APC3 plays a critical role in the transition from metaphase to anaphase (11). Phosphorylation of APC3 at multiple sites during mitosis likely leads to structural changes within the APC/C by altering subunit interactions or changing affinity for molecules that transiently associate with the APC/C, such as Cdh1/FZR1 (12,13).
Alternate Names
ANAPC3; anaphase promoting complex subunit 3; Anaphase-promoting complex subunit 3; anaphase-promoting complex, protein 3; APC3; CDC27; CDC27 homolog; CDC27Hs; cell division cycle 27; cell division cycle 27 homolog; cell division cycle 27 homolog (S. cerevisiae); cell division cycle protein 27; Cell division cycle protein 27 homolog; D0S1430E; D0S1430E, D17S978E; D17S978E; H-NUC; HNUC; NUC2; nuc2 homolog
