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Recombinant Alexa Fluor® 488 Anti-Tau antibody [EP2456Y] (ab206060)

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Immunocytochemistry/ Immunofluorescence - Alexa Fluor® 488 Anti-Tau antibody [EP2456Y] (ab206060)
  • Alexa Fluor® 488 Anti-Tau antibody [EP2456Y] (ab206060)

Key features and details

  • Produced recombinantly (animal-free) for high batch-to-batch consistency and long term security of supply
  • Alexa Fluor® 488 Rabbit monoclonal [EP2456Y] to Tau
  • Suitable for: ICC/IF
  • Reacts with: Mouse
  • Conjugation: Alexa Fluor® 488. Ex: 495nm, Em: 519nm

Overview

  • Product name

    Alexa Fluor® 488 Anti-Tau antibody [EP2456Y]
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  • Description

    Alexa Fluor® 488 Rabbit monoclonal [EP2456Y] to Tau

  • Host species

    Rabbit

  • Conjugation

    Alexa Fluor® 488. Ex: 495nm, Em: 519nm

  • Tested applications

    Suitable for: ICC/IFmore details

  • Species reactivity

    Reacts with: Mouse
    Predicted to work with: Rat, Human

  • Immunogen

    Synthetic peptide. within Human Tau aa 600-700. The exact sequence is proprietary.
    Database link: P10636

  • Positive control

    • ICC/IF: Neuro-2a (differentiated) cells.

  • General notes

     

     

    This product is a recombinant monoclonal antibody, which offers several advantages including:

    • - High batch-to-batch consistency and reproducibility
    • - Improved sensitivity and specificity
    • - Long-term security of supply
    • - Animal-free production
    For more information see here.

    Our RabMAb® technology is a patented hybridoma-based technology for making rabbit monoclonal antibodies. For details on our patents, please refer to RabMAb® patents.

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Properties

Applications

Our Abpromise guarantee covers the use of ab206060 in the following tested applications.

The application notes include recommended starting dilutions; optimal dilutions/concentrations should be determined by the end user.

Application Abreviews Notes
ICC/IF 1/100.

This product gave a positive signal in Neuro-2a (differentiated) cells fixed with 4% formaldehyde (10 min) and 100% methanol (5 min).

Target

  • Function

    Promotes microtubule assembly and stability, and might be involved in the establishment and maintenance of neuronal polarity. The C-terminus binds axonal microtubules while the N-terminus binds neural plasma membrane components, suggesting that tau functions as a linker protein between both. Axonal polarity is predetermined by tau localization (in the neuronal cell) in the domain of the cell body defined by the centrosome. The short isoforms allow plasticity of the cytoskeleton whereas the longer isoforms may preferentially play a role in its stabilization.

  • Tissue specificity

    Expressed in neurons. Isoform PNS-tau is expressed in the peripheral nervous system while the others are expressed in the central nervous system.

  • Involvement in disease

    Note=In Alzheimer disease, the neuronal cytoskeleton in the brain is progressively disrupted and replaced by tangles of paired helical filaments (PHF) and straight filaments, mainly composed of hyperphosphorylated forms of TAU (PHF-TAU or AD P-TAU).
    Defects in MAPT are a cause of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) [MIM:600274]; also called frontotemporal dementia (FTD), pallido-ponto-nigral degeneration (PPND) or historically termed Pick complex. This form of frontotemporal dementia is characterized by presenile dementia with behavioral changes, deterioration of cognitive capacities and loss of memory. In some cases, parkinsonian symptoms are prominent. Neuropathological changes include frontotemporal atrophy often associated with atrophy of the basal ganglia, substantia nigra, amygdala. In most cases, protein tau deposits are found in glial cells and/or neurons.
    Defects in MAPT are a cause of Pick disease of the brain (PIDB) [MIM:172700]. It is a rare form of dementia pathologically defined by severe atrophy, neuronal loss and gliosis. It is characterized by the occurrence of tau-positive inclusions, swollen neurons (Pick cells) and argentophilic neuronal inclusions known as Pick bodies that disproportionally affect the frontal and temporal cortical regions. Clinical features include aphasia, apraxia, confusion, anomia, memory loss and personality deterioration.
    Note=Defects in MAPT are a cause of corticobasal degeneration (CBD). It is marked by extrapyramidal signs and apraxia and can be associated with memory loss. Neuropathologic features may overlap Alzheimer disease, progressive supranuclear palsy, and Parkinson disease.
    Defects in MAPT are a cause of progressive supranuclear palsy type 1 (PSNP1) [MIM:601104, 260540]; also abbreviated as PSP and also known as Steele-Richardson-Olszewski syndrome. PSNP1 is characterized by akinetic-rigid syndrome, supranuclear gaze palsy, pyramidal tract dysfunction, pseudobulbar signs and cognitive capacities deterioration. Neurofibrillary tangles and gliosis but no amyloid plaques are found in diseased brains. Most cases appear to be sporadic, with a significant association with a common haplotype including the MAPT gene and the flanking regions. Familial cases show an autosomal dominant pattern of transmission with incomplete penetrance; genetic analysis of a few cases showed the occurrence of tau mutations, including a deletion of Asn-613.

  • Sequence similarities

    Contains 4 Tau/MAP repeats.

  • Developmental stage

    Four-repeat (type II) tau is expressed in an adult-specific manner and is not found in fetal brain, whereas three-repeat (type I) tau is found in both adult and fetal brain.

  • Domain

    The tau/MAP repeat binds to tubulin. Type I isoforms contain 3 repeats while type II isoforms contain 4 repeats.

  • Post-translational
    modifications

    Phosphorylation at serine and threonine residues in S-P or T-P motifs by proline-directed protein kinases (PDPK: CDK1, CDK5, GSK-3, MAPK) (only 2-3 sites per protein in interphase, seven-fold increase in mitosis, and in PHF-tau), and at serine residues in K-X-G-S motifs by MAP/microtubule affinity-regulating kinase (MARK) in Alzheimer diseased brains. Phosphorylation decreases with age. Phosphorylation within tau's repeat domain or in flanking regions seems to reduce tau's interaction with, respectively, microtubules or plasma membrane components. Phosphorylation on Ser-610, Ser-622, Ser-641 and Ser-673 in several isoforms during mitosis.
    Polyubiquitinated. Requires functional TRAF6 and may provoke SQSTM1-dependent degradation by the proteasome (By similarity). PHF-tau can be modified by three different forms of polyubiquitination. 'Lys-48'-linked polyubiquitination is the major form, 'Lys-6'-linked and 'Lys-11'-linked polyubiquitination also occur.
    Glycation of PHF-tau, but not normal brain tau. Glycation is a non-enzymatic post-translational modification that involves a covalent linkage between a sugar and an amino group of a protein molecule forming ketoamine. Subsequent oxidation, fragmentation and/or cross-linking of ketoamine leads to the production of advanced glycation endproducts (AGES). Glycation may play a role in stabilizing PHF aggregation leading to tangle formation in AD.

  • Cellular localization

    Cytoplasm > cytosol. Cell membrane. Cytoplasm > cytoskeleton. Cell projection > axon. Mostly found in the axons of neurons, in the cytosol and in association with plasma membrane components.
  • Information by UniProt

  • Database links

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  • Form

    There are 9 isoforms produced by alternative splicing.

  • Alternative names

    • AI413597 antibody
    • AW045860 antibody
    • DDPAC antibody
    • FLJ31424 antibody
    • FTDP 17 antibody
    • G protein beta1/gamma2 subunit interacting factor 1 antibody
    • MAPT antibody
    • MAPTL antibody
    • MGC134287 antibody
    • MGC138549 antibody
    • MGC156663 antibody
    • Microtubule associated protein tau antibody
    • Microtubule associated protein tau isoform 4 antibody
    • Microtubule-associated protein tau antibody
    • MSTD antibody
    • Mtapt antibody
    • MTBT1 antibody
    • MTBT2 antibody
    • Neurofibrillary tangle protein antibody
    • Paired helical filament tau antibody
    • Paired helical filament-tau antibody
    • PHF tau antibody
    • PHF-tau antibody
    • PPND antibody
    • PPP1R103 antibody
    • Protein phosphatase 1, regulatory subunit 103 antibody
    • pTau antibody
    • RNPTAU antibody
    • TAU antibody
    • TAU_HUMAN antibody
    • Tauopathy and respiratory failure antibody
    • Tauopathy and respiratory failure, included antibody
    see all

Images

  • Immunocytochemistry/ Immunofluorescence - Alexa Fluor® 488 Anti-Tau antibody [EP2456Y] (ab206060)
    Immunocytochemistry/ Immunofluorescence - Alexa Fluor® 488 Anti-Tau antibody [EP2456Y] (ab206060)

    ab206060 staining Tau in Neuro-2a (differentiated) cells. The cells were fixed with 100% methanol (5 min), permeabilized with 0.1% Triton X-100 for 5 minutes and then blocked with 1% BSA/10% normal goat serum/0.3M glycine in 0.1% PBS-Tween for 1h. The cells were then incubated overnight at +4°C with ab206060 at a 1/100 dilution (shown in green) and ab195889, Mouse monoclonal to alpha Tubulin (Alexa Fluor® 594), at a 1/250 dilution (shown in red). Nuclear DNA was labelled with DAPI (shown in blue).

    Image was taken with a confocal microscope (Leica-Microsystems, TCS SP8).

    This product also gave a positive signal under the same testing conditions in Neuro-2a (differentiated) cells fixed with 4% formaldehyde (10 min).

  • Alexa Fluor® 488 Anti-Tau antibody [EP2456Y] (ab206060)
    Alexa Fluor® 488 Anti-Tau antibody [EP2456Y] (ab206060)

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