| Immunogen | LinearpeptidecorrespondingtheC-terminalaminoacids113-127ofhumanHistoneH2A.Z. | 
| Epitope | C-terminus | 
| Host | Sheep | 
| Specificity | RecognizesHistoneH2A.Z,Mr~15kDa. | 
| SpeciesReactivity |  | 
| SpeciesReactivityNote | Human.Widespeciesreactivityisexpected. Predictedtocross-reactwithzebrafish,mouse,chicken,rat,rabbit,andXenopusbasedonsequencehomology.
 
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| AntibodyType | PolyclonalAntibody | 
| EntrezGeneNumber |  | 
| EntrezGeneSummary | HistonesarebasicnuclearproteinsthatareresponsIBLeforthenucleosomestructureofthechromosomalfiberineukaryotes.Nucleosomesconsistofapproximately146bpofDNAwrappedaroundahistoneoctamercomposedofpairsofeachofthefourcorehistones(H2A,H2B,H3,andH4).Thechromatinfiberisfurthercompactedthroughtheinteractionofalinkerhistone,H1,withtheDNAbetweenthenucleosomestoformhigherorderchromatinstructures.ThisgeneencodesamemberofthehistoneH2Afamily.Severaltranscriptvariantsencodingdifferentisoforms,havebeenidentifiedforthisgene.[providedbyRefSeq]. 
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| GeneSymbol | H2A.zH2A/zH2AZMGC117173H2AFZ
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| PurificationMethod | AffinityPurfied | 
| UniProtNumber |  | 
| UniProtSummary | FUNCTION:VarianthistoneH2AwhichreplacesconventionalH2Ainasubsetofnucleosomes.NucleosomeswrapandcompactDNAintochromatin,limitingDNAaccessibilitytothecellularmachinerieswhichrequireDNAasatemplate.Histonestherebyplayacentralroleintranscriptionregulation,DNArepair,DNAreplicationandchromosomalstability.DNAaccessibilityisregulatedviaacomplexsetofpost-translationalmodificationsofhistones,alsocalledhistonecode,andnucleosomeremodeling.Maybeinvolvedintheformationofconstitutiveheterochromatin.Mayberequiredforchromosomesegregationduringcelldivision.Ref.7 
 SUBUNITSTRUCTURE:ThenucleosomeisahistoneoctamercontainingtwomoleculeseachofH2A,H2B,H3andH4assembledinoneH3-H4heterotetramerandtwoH2A-H2Bheterodimers.Theoctamerwrapsapproximately147bpofDNA.H2AoritsvariantH2AFZformsanheterodimerwithH2B.H2AFZinteractswithINCENPBysimilarity.
 
 SUBCELLULARLOCATION:Nucleus.
 
 PTM:MonoubiquitinationofLys-122givesaspecifictagforepigenetictranscriptionalrepression.
 
 AcetylatedonLys-5,Lys-8andLys-12duringinterphase.AcetylationdisappearsatmitosisBysimilarity.
 
 NotphosphorylatedBysimilarity.
 
 SIMILARITY:BelongstothehistoneH2Afamily.
 
 MOLECULARWEIGHT:is13413.4Dafrompositions2-128.DeterminedbyESI.Monoisotopic,notmodified.Ref.8Ref.10Ref.11
 
 
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| MolecularWeight | ~15kDa |