Thermo Fisher Scientific Human XBP1 Synthetic Peptide

Applications

Control (Ctrl)

• Assay-dependent

Blocking Assay (BLOCK)

• Assay-dependent

Product Specifications

Product Specific Information

This peptide corresponds to 17 amino acids near the carboxy terminus of human XBP-1.
PEP-0350 can be used as a blocking peptide with polyclonal antibody PA5-20217.

Target Information

XBP1 encodes a transcription factor that regulates MHC class II genes by binding to a promoter element referred to as an X box. This gene product is a bZIP protein, which was also identified as a cellular transcription factor that binds to an enhancer in the promoter of the T cell leukemia virus type 1 promoter. It may increase expression of viral proteins by acting as the DNA binding partner of a viral transactivator.

Upon accumulation of unfolded proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), the mRNA of this gene is processed to an active form by an unconventional splicing mechanism mediated by the endonuclease inositol-requiring enzyme 1 (IRE1). The resulting loss of 26 nt from the spliced mRNA causes a frame-shift and an isoform XBP1(S), which is the functionally active transcription factor. The isoform encoded by the unspliced mRNA, XBP1(U), is constitutively expressed and functions as a negative feedback regulator of XBP1(S), shutting off transcription of target genes during the recovery phase of ER stress. A pseudogene of XBP1 has been identified and localized to chromosome 5.

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