Form
Liquid
Buffer
PBS, 0.1% BSA
Preservative
0.02% Sodium azide
Storage
Store the peptide at -20ºC, stable for one year.
Concentration
0.20 mg/ml (Please refer to the vial label for the specific concentration.)
Conjugation
Unconjugated
Note
For laboratory research use only. Not for any clinical, therapeutic, or diagnostic use in humans or animals. Not for animal or human consumption.
Purchasers shall not, and agree not to enable third parties to, analyze, copy, reverse engineer or otherwise attempt to determine the structure or sequence of the product.
Synonyms
Apoptotic Peptidase Activating Factor 1 , Apaf-1 , Ced4 , Apaf1
Background
Apoptosis is related to many diseases and induced by a family of cell death receptors and their ligands. Cell death signals are transduced by death domain containing adapter molecules and members of the caspase family of proteases. The mammalian homolog of the key cell death gene CED 4 in C. elegans was identified recently from human and mouse and designated APAF1 for Apoptosis protease-activating factor 1. APAF1 binds to Cytochrome c (APAF2) and Caspase 9 (APAF3), which leads to Caspase 9 activation. Activated Caspase 9 in turn cleaves and activates Caspase 3 that is one of the key proteases, being responsible for the proteolytic cleavage of many key proteins in apoptosis. APAF1 can also associate with Caspase 4 and Caspase 8. APAF1 transcript is ubiquitously expressed in human tissues.
Research Area