Mouse BID

Rabbit

Mouse, Human, Rat, Dog, Gerbil (tested or 100% immunogen sequence identity)

Polyclonal

Unconjugated

Antiserum

Unmodified

Full length recombinant mouse Bid protein.

Full-length Bid is known to undergo cleavage/truncation (reviewed in Yin, 2006). Bid was initially found to be cleaved and activated by caspase-8 following death receptor activation. The term "Bid" was first used to described the caspase-8 cleaved/truncated C-terminal Bid. Bid can be also cleaved by other proteases such as Granzyme B, calpains and cathepsin. The C-terminal portion is considered to be the active Bid moiety. This active form can translocate from the cytosol to the mitochondria. Therefore, the appearance of Bid in the mitochondria is considered to be an indication of active Bid. However, it should also be noted that Bid has been shown to translocate to the mitochondria without cleavage in some model systems. The proteolytic cleavage of Bid usually occurs in the unstructured loop region between the alpha 2 and alpha 3 helices, which is between amino acids (aa) 41 and 79 of Bid. For example, the caspase-8/3 cleavage site is at 60 (human) and 59 (mouse). It should be noted that after cleavage, the smaller N-terminal portion of Bid is not necessarily separated from the larger C-terminal portion. The exact size of the C-terminal cleavage products depends on the Bid cleavage sites; generally 11-15 kD C-truncated cleavage forms are generated. Shorter C-terminal Bid cleavage products may result from protease cleavage that involves both caspases and other proteases. Full length Bid is quite stable, but cleaved/truncated forms may have a short half-life (less than 1.5 h) and degrade rapidly. Therefore, a time course may be useful when detecting Bid cleavage fragments.

• IHC
• IHC - Paraffin (1:1000 - 1:5000)
• IHC - Frozen
• Western blot (1:1000 - 1:2000)
• Immunoprecipitation (1:50 - 1:200)

Antiserum, 0.05% sodium azide

Store at -20°C. Aliquot to avoid freeze/thaw cycles.

For research use only. Intended for use by laboratory professionals.

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Uniprot: P55957 NCBI: NM_001196 NP_001187.1