| Immunogen | Ovalbumin-conjugatedsyntheticlinearpeptidecorrespondingtotheC-terminusofHistoneH2B. | 
| Epitope | C-terminus | 
| Clone | clone5HH2-2A8 | 
| Host | Mouse | 
| Specificity | AntibodyrecognizesHistoneH2BneartheC-terminus. | 
| Isotype | IgG1κ | 
| SpeciesReactivity |  | 
| AntibodyType | MonoclonalAntibody | 
| EntrezGeneNumber |  | 
| EntrezGeneSummary | Histonesarebasicnuclearproteinsthatareresponsibleforthenucleosomestructureofthechromosomalfiberineukaryotes.Twomoleculesofeachofthefourcorehistones(H2A,H2B,H3,andH4)formanoctamer,aroundwhichapproximately146bpofDNAiswrappedinrepeatingunits,callednucleosomes.Thelinkerhistone,H1,interactswithlinkerDNAbetweennucleosomesandfunctionsinthecompactionofchromatinintohigherorderstructures.ThisgeneisintronlessandencodesamemberofthehistoneH2Bfamily.TranscriptsfromthisgenelackpolyAtailsbutinsteadcontainapalindromicterminationelement.Thisgeneisfoundinthesmallhistonegeneclusteronchromosome6p22-p21.3.[providedbyRefSeq] | 
| GeneSymbol | H2BGL105H2B-GL105H2B.1H2B.qH2B/qH2BFQ
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| PurificationMethod | Unpurified | 
| UniProtNumber |  | 
| UniProtSummary | FUNCTION:SwissProt:Q8N257#Corecomponentofnucleosome.NucleosomeswrapandcompactDNAintochromatin,limitingDNAaccessibilitytothecellularmachinerieswhichrequireDNAasatemplate.Histonestherebyplayacentralroleintranscriptionregulation,DNArepair,DNAreplicationandchromosomalstABIlity.DNAaccessibilityisregulatedviaacomplexsetofpost-translationalmodificationsofhistones,alsocalledhistonecode,andnucleosomeremodeling. 
 SIZE:126aminoacids;13908Da
 
 SUBUNIT:ThenucleosomeisahistoneoctamercontainingtwomoleculeseachofH2A,H2B,H3andH4assembledinoneH3-H4heterotetramerandtwoH2A-H2Bheterodimers.Theoctamerwrapsapproximately147bpofDNA.
 
 SUBCELLULARLOCATION:Nucleus.
 
 PTM:MonoubiquitinationofLys-121bytheRNF20/40complexgivesaspecifictagforepigenetictranscriptionalactivationandisalsoprerequisiteforhistoneH3"Lys-4"and"Lys-79"methylation.ItalsofunctionscooperativelywiththeFACTdimertostimulateelongationbyRNApolymeraseII.&PhosphorylatedonSer-15bySTK4/MST1duringapoptosis;whichfacilitatesapoptoticchromatincondensation.AlsophosphorylatedonSer-15inresponsetoDNAdoublestrandbreaks(DSBs),andincorrelationwithsomatichypermutationandimmunoglobulinclass-switchrecombination.
 
 SIMILARITY:SwissProt:Q8N257##BelongstothehistoneH2Bfamily.
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| MolecularWeight | ~15kDa |