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Products Polyclonal Anti-CYP11A1
| Catalogue number: | PA1698-1 |
| Price: | $200.00 |
| Reactivities: | Mouse, Rat |
| Applications: | Western Blot |
| Size: | 100?g/vial |
| Gene: | CYP11A1 |
| Swiss prot: | Q9QZ82 |
| Form: | Lyophilized |
| Format: | Each vial contains 5mg BSA, 0.9mg NaCl, 0.2mg Na2HPO4, 0.05mg Thimerosal, 0.05mg NaN3. |
| Storage temp: | At -20 degree C for one year. After reconstitution, at 4 degree C for one month. It can also be aliquotted and stored frozen at -20 degree C for a longer time.Avoid repeated freezing and thawing. |
| Scientific background: | CYP11A1(Cytochrome p450, family 11, subfamily A, polypeptide 1), also called CYTOCHROME P450SCC, CYTOCHROME P450C11A1 or CYP11A, is a mitochondrial enzyme associated with the conversion of cholesterol to pregnenolone. CYP11A1 is a member of the cytochrome P450 superfamily of enzymes. The CYP11A1 gene is mapped on 15q24.1. Expression of the CYP11A1 gene may play a role in skin physiology and pathology and that cutaneous proopiomelanocortin activity may be autoregulated by a feedback mechanism involving glucocorticoids synthesized locally by Slominski et al. Using in vitro studies, CYP11A1 catalyzed the side-chain cleavage of 7-dehydrocholesterol to form 7-dehydropregnenolone. In addition, CYP11A1 catalyzed the metabolism of biologically inert vitamin D3, which is formed from 7-dehydrocholesterol, to form 2 hydroxylated products, 20-hydroxyvitamin D3 and 20, 22-dihydroxyvitamin D3. Mutations in the CYP11A1 gene cause congenital adrenal insufficiency with partial or complete 46, XY sex reversal. |
| References: | 1. al Kandari, H., Katsumata, N., Alexander, S., Rasoul, M. A. Homozygous mutation of P450 side-chain cleavage enzyme gene (CYP11A1) in 46,XY patient with adrenal insufficiency, complete sex reversal, and agenesis of corpus callosum. J. Clin. Endocr. Metab. 91: 2821-2826, 2006. 2. Chung, B.-C., Matteson, K. J., Voutilainen, R., Mohandas, T. K., Miller, W. L. Human cholesterol side-chain cleavage enzyme, P450scc: cDNA cloning, assignment of the gene to chromosome 15, and expression in the placenta. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 83: 8962-8966, 1986. 3. Guryev, O., Carvalho, R. A., Usanov, S., Gilep, A., Estabrook, R. W. A pathway for the metabolism of vitamin D3: unique hydroxylated metabolites formed during catalysis with cytochrome P450scc (CYP11A1). Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 100: 14754-14759, 2003. |
| Additional info: | A synthetic peptide corresponding to a sequence at the N-terminus of mouse CYP11A1, different from the related rat sequence by two amino acids. |
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