| Immunogen | KLH-conjugatedpeptidecorrespondingtoa.a.2-19ofTetrahymenahistoneH4[AGGAcKGGAcKGMGAcKVGAAcKRHS-C],acetylatedonlysines5,8,12and16. | 
| Epitope | a.a.2-19 | 
| Concentration | PleaserefertotheCertificateofAnalysisforthelot-specificconcentration. | 
| Host | Rabbit | 
| Specificity | AcetylatedhistoneH4,acetylatedhistoneH2BfromTetrahymenaandweaklycross-reactswithacetylatedhistoneH2BfromHeLacells,maycross-reactwithotheracetylatedproteins. | 
| Isotype | IgG | 
| SpeciesReactivity | HumanTetrahymenaEukaryote
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| SpeciesReactivityNote | HumanandTetrahymena.Otherspeciesnottested,butexpectedtocross-reactsinceHistoneH4iswellconserved. | 
| AntibodyType | PolyclonalAntibody | 
| EntrezGeneNumber |  | 
| EntrezGeneSummary | HistonesarebasicnuclearproteinsthatareresponsIBLeforthenucleosomestructureofthechromosomalfiberineukaryotes.Twomoleculesofeachofthefourcorehistones(H2A,H2B,H3,andH4)formanoctamer,aroundwhichapproximately146bpofDNAiswrappedinrepeatingunits,callednucleosomes.Thelinkerhistone,H1,interactswithlinkerDNAbetweennucleosomesandfunctionsinthecompactionofchromatinintohigherorderstructures.ThisgeneisintronlessandencodesamemberofthehistoneH4family.TranscriptsfromthisgenelackpolyAtailsbutinsteadcontainapalindromicterminationelement.Thisgeneisfoundinthelargehistonegeneclusteronchromosome6. | 
| GeneSymbol | HIST1H4AH4/JHIST1H4FHIST1H4LH4FNH4FAH4FHHIST1H4HH4F2H4FMH4/AH4FKH4FGHIST2H4H4FBH4/KHIST1H4IH4/NHIST1H4BH4FEH4/MH4/aIST1H4EHIST4H4HIST2H4AH4FCH4FIH4/HHIST1H4CH4/GHIST1H4K4FJH4FDH4/IH4/BH4/DH4/CHIST1H4JHIST1H4DH4/E
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| Modifications |  | 
| PurificationMethod | Unpurified | 
| UniProtNumber |  | 
| UniProtSummary | FUNCTION:SwissProt:P62805#Corecomponentofnucleosome.NucleosomeswrapandcompactDNAintochromatin,limitingDNAaccessibilitytothecellularmachinerieswhichrequireDNAasatemplate.Histonestherebyplayacentralroleintranscriptionregulation,DNArepair,DNAreplicationandchromosomalstABIlity.DNAaccessibilityisregulatedviaacomplexsetofpost-translationalmodificationsofhistones,alsocalledhistonecode,andnucleosomeremodeling. SIZE:103aminoacids;11367Da
 SUBUNIT:ThenucleosomeisahistoneoctamercontainingtwomoleculeseachofH2A,H2B,H3andH4assembledinoneH3-H4heterotetramerandtwoH2A-H2Bheterodimers.Theoctamerwrapsapproximately147bpofDNA.
 SUBCELLULARLOCATION:Nucleus.
 PTM:SymmetricdimethylationonArg-4bythePRDM1/PRMT5complexmayplayacrucialroleinthegerm-celllineage(Bysimilarity).&UbiquitinatedbytheCUL4-DDB-RBX1complexinresponsetoultravioletirrADIation.ThismayweakentheinteractionbetweenhistonesandDNAandfacilitateDNAaccessibilitytorepairproteins.
 SIMILARITY:SwissProt:P62805##BelongstothehistoneH4family.
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| MolecularWeight | 10kDa |