p53 Human Immunocapture Kit

ab154470 is suitable to immunocapture p53 from whole cell lysates. Traditional immunoprecipitation methods usually result in co-elution of the antibody heavy and light chains that may co-migrate with relevant bands, masking important results. The abcam p53 immunocapture kit resolves this issue by immobilizing the p53 capture antibody onto protein G-agarose beads. The kit includes optimized buffers and reagents for sample preparation and p53 binding and recovery, which shorten the protocol and minimize handling and mixing.

p53 acts as a tumor suppressor in many tumor types; induces growth arrest or apoptosis depending on the physiological circumstances and cell type. It is involved in cell cycle regulation as a trans-activator that acts to negatively regulate cell division by controlling a set of genes required for this process. One of the activated genes is an inhibitor of cyclin-dependent kinases. Apoptosis induction by p53 seems to be mediated either by stimulation of BAX and FAS antigen expression, or by repression of Bcl-2 expression. p53 is implicated in Notch signaling cross-over. p53 prevents CDK7 kinase activity when associated to CAK complex in response to DNA damage, thus stopping cell cycle progression.