| Immunogen | KLH-conjugatedlinearpeptidecorrespondingtohumanHistoneH2A.Bbd. | 
| Epitope | a.a.35-55 | 
| Concentration | PleaserefertotheCertificateofAnalysisforthelot-specificconcentration. | 
| Host | Rabbit | 
| Specificity | ThisantibodyrecognizeshumanHistoneH2A.Bbd. | 
| SpeciesReactivity |  | 
| AntibodyType | PolyclonalAntibody | 
| EntrezGeneNumber |  | 
| EntrezGeneSummary | HistonesarebasicnuclearproteinsthatareresponsIBLeforthenucleosomestructureofthechromosomalfiberineukaryotes.Nucleosomesconsistofapproximately146bpofDNAwrappedaroundahistoneoctamercomposedofpairsofeachofthefourcorehistones(H2A,H2B,H3,andH4).Thechromatinfiberisfurthercompactedthroughtheinteractionofalinkerhistone,H1,withtheDNAbetweenthenucleosomestoformhigherorderchromatinstructures.ThisgeneencodesamemberofthehistoneH2Afamily.ThisgeneispartofaregionthatisrepeatedthreetimesonchromosomeX,onceinintron22oftheF8geneandtwiceclosertotheXqtelomere.Thisrecordrepresentsthemostcentromericcopywhichisinintron22oftheF8gene.[providedbyRefSeq]. | 
| GeneSymbol |  | 
| PurificationMethod | AffinityPurfied | 
| UniProtNumber |  | 
| UniProtSummary | FUNCTION:AtypicalhistoneH2AwhichcanreplaceconventionalH2Ainsomenucleosomes.NucleosomeswrapandcompactDNAintochromatin,limitingDNAaccessibilitytothecellularmachinerieswhichrequireDNAasatemplate.Histonestherebyplayacentralroleintranscriptionregulation,DNArepair,DNAreplicationandchromosomalstability.DNAaccessibilityisregulatedviaacomplexsetofpost-translationalmodificationsofhistones,alsocalledhistonecode,andnucleosomeremodeling.Nucleosomescontainingthishistonearelessrigidandorganizeonly118basepairofDNAinsteadof147inclassicalnucleosomes.TheyareassociatedwithtranscriptionallyactivechromatinandexcludedformBarrbodies.Ref.4Ref.5 
 SUBUNITSTRUCTURE:ThenucleosomeisahistoneoctamercontainingtwomoleculeseachofH2A,H2B,H3andH4assembledinoneH3-H4heterotetramerandtwoH2A-H2Bheterodimers.Maybeincorporatedintoaproportionofnucleosomes,replacingoneormoreH2Amolecules.
 
 SUBCELLULARLOCATION:Nucleus.Chromosome.Note:AssociatedwiththeactiveXchromosomeandwithautosomes,whileitisabsentfromtheinactiveXchromosomeandexcludedfromBarrbodies.
 
 DOMAIN:ThedockingdomainisresponsiblefortheweakerheterodimerizationwithH2B.Ref.4
 
 MISCELLANEOUS:IncontrasttootherH2Ahistones,itdoesnotcontaintheconservedresiduesthatarethetargetofpost-translationalmodifications.
 
 SEQUENCESIMILARITIES:BelongstothehistoneH2Afamily.
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| MolecularWeight | ~17kDaobserved |