• Species Reactivity

  Human

• Specificity

  Detects human Cortactin in ELISAs.

• Source

  Monoclonal Mouse IgG    _2B Clone # 771716

• Purification

  Protein A or G purified from hybridoma culture supernatant

• Immunogen

  E. coli-derived recombinant human Cortactin    
  Met1-Gly85    
  Accession # Q14247

• Formulation

  Lyophilized from a 0.2 μm filtered solution in PBS with Trehalose. *Small pack size (SP) is supplied as a 0.2 µm filtered solution in PBS.

• Label

  Unconjugated

Applications

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  Recommended    
  Concentration

  Sample

• Western Blot

  0.1 µg/mL

  See below

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• Immunohistochemistry

  8-25 µg/mL

  See below

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Please Note: Optimal dilutions should be determined by each laboratory for each application.  are available in the Technical Information section on our website.

Data Examples

Preparation and Storage

• Reconstitution

  Sterile PBS to a final concentration of 0.5 mg/mL.

• Shipping

  The product is shipped at ambient temperature. Upon receipt, store it immediately at the temperature recommended below. *Small pack size (SP) is shipped with polar packs. Upon receipt, store it immediately at -20 to -70 °C

• Stability & Storage

  Use a manual defrost freezer and avoid repeated freeze-thaw cycles.    

• 12 months from date of receipt, -20 to -70 °C as supplied.

• 1 month, 2 to 8 °C under sterile conditions after reconstitution.

• 6 months, -20 to -70 °C under sterile conditions after reconstitution.

Background: Cortactin

Cortactin (also EMS1 and Amplaxin) is an 80‑85 kDa multidomain scaffold-associated protein. It is an actin-binding cytoplasmic protein found at intercellular junctions and near lamellipodia. It is also found in tumor invadopodia, a somewhat analogous structure to lamellipodia. Here, Cortactin appears to coordinate actin assembly with MMP secretion, thus facilitating tumor invasiveness. Human Cortactin is 550 amino acids (aa) in length and contains six-plus Cortactin regions (aa 80‑324) that regulate actin polymerization, and one SH3 domain (aa 496‑548) that binds to N-WASP. Cortactin is highly phosphorylated on Tyr and Ser/Thr, and undergoes acetylation.

• Entrez Gene IDs:

  2017 (Human); 13043 (Mouse); 60465 (Rat)

• Alternate Names:

  1110020L01Rik; Amplaxin; Cortactin; CTTN; ems1 sequence (mammary tumor and squamous cell carcinoma-associated (p80/85 srcsubstrate); EMS1; EMS1amplaxin; FLJ34459; Oncogene EMS1; src substrate cortactin