| Immunogen | 35residuesyntheticpeptidecorrespondingtotheC-terminusofratMAPKinase2/Erk2. | 
| Host | Rabbit | 
| Specificity | AntibodyrecognizesMAPK1/Erk1andMAPK2/Erk2 | 
| Isotype | IgG | 
| SpeciesReactivity |  | 
| SpeciesReactivityNote | TestedandpassedonHuman.Unconjugatedversion(Cat.No.06-182)isknowntoreactwithAvian,Mouse,Rat,Sheep,Xenopus,Echinoderms. 
 
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| AntibodyType | PolyclonalAntibody | 
| EntrezGeneNumber |  | 
| EntrezGeneSummary | TheproteinencodedbythisgeneisamemberoftheMAPkinasefamily.MAPkinases,alsoknownasextracellularsignal-regulatedkinases(ERKs),actasanintegrationpointformultiplebiochemicalsignals,andareinvolvedinawidevarietyofcellularprocessessuchasproliferation,differentiation,transcriptionregulationanddevelopment.Theactivationofthiskinaserequiresitsphosphorylationbyupstreamkinases.Uponactivation,thiskinasetranslocatestothenucleusofthestimulatedcells,whereitphosphorylatesnucleartargets.Twoalternativelysplicedtranscriptvariantsencodingthesameprotein,butdifferingintheUTRs,havebeenreportedforthisgene. | 
| GeneSymbol | MAPK1p38ERKP42MAPKERK2p40PRKM1p41mapkPRKM2MAPK2p42-MAPKp41ERK-2ERT1
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| PurificationMethod | AntigenAffinity | 
| UniProtNumber |  | 
| UniProtSummary | FUNCTION:SwissProt:P28482#Involvedinboththeinitiationandregulationofmeiosis,mitosis,andpostmitoticfunctionsindifferentiatedcellsbyphosphorylatinganumberoftranscriptionfactorssuchasELK1.PhosphorylatesEIF4EBP1;requiredforinitiationoftranslation.Phosphorylatesmicrotubule-associatedprotein2(MAP2).PhosphorylatesSPZ1(Bysimilarity).Phosphorylatesheatshockfactorprotein4(HSF4). 
 COFACTOR:Magnesium(Bysimilarity).
 
 SIZE:360aminoacids;41390Da
 
 SUBUNIT:InteractswithMORG1(Bysimilarity).BindstoHIV-1NefthroughitsSH3domain.Thisinteractioninhibitsitstyrosine-kinaseactivity.InteractswithHSF4.
 
 DOMAIN:SwissProt:P28482TheTXYmotifcontainsthethreonineandtyrosineresidueswhosephosphorylationactivatestheMAPkinases.
 
 PTM:DuallyphosphorylatedonThr-185andTyr-187,whichactivatestheenzyme.
 
 SIMILARITY:Belongstotheproteinkinasesuperfamily.CMGCSer/Thrproteinkinasefamily.MAPkinasesubfamily.&Contains1proteinkinasedomain.
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| MolecularWeight | 41.4kDaCalculated |