| Immunogen | KLH-conjugated,syntheticpeptidecorrespondingtoaminoacids118-126(CG-AVTKYTSSK)ofhumanHistoneH2B,withanN-terminalCGaddedforconjugationpurposes. | 
| Host | Rabbit | 
| Specificity | RecognizesandisspecificforHistoneH2B,MW~15kDa.Anadditionalbandat~23kDaisdetectedinsomesamples,whichlikelycorrespondstoubiquityl-HistoneH2B. | 
| SpeciesReactivity | ChickenXenopusHumanYeast(S.cerevisiae)
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| SpeciesReactivityNote | Human,chicken,yeastandXenopus.Othersnottested.Broadspeciescross-reactivityexpectedbasedonsequencehomology. | 
| AntibodyType | PolyclonalAntibody | 
| EntrezGeneNumber |  | 
| EntrezGeneSummary | HistonesarebasicnuclearproteinsthatareresponsIBLeforthenucleosomestructureofthechromosomalfiberineukaryotes.Nucleosomesconsistofapproximately146bpofDNAwrappedaroundahistoneoctamercomposedofpairsofeachofthefourcorehistones(H2A,H2B,H3,andH4).Thechromatinfiberisfurthercompactedthroughtheinteractionofalinkerhistone,H1,withtheDNAbetweenthenucleosomestoformhigherorderchromatinstructures.ThisgeneisintronlessandencodesamemberofthehistoneH2Bfamily.Transcriptsfromthisgenecontainapalindromicterminationelement. | 
| GeneSymbol | GL105H2BH2B-GL105H2B.1H2B.qH2B/qH2BFQMGC119802MGC119804MGC129733MGC129734OTTHUMP00000013920
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| PurificationMethod | ProteinAPurfied | 
| 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 |