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PTEN and PDK1 Antibody Sampler Kit II #30590

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    Product Description

    The PTEN and PDK1 Antibody Sampler Kit II provides an economical means to evaluate two key enzymes that regulate multiple signaling pathways. The kit includes enough antibodies to perform two western blot experiments with each primary antibody.

    Background

    PTEN (phosphatase and tensin homologue deleted on chromosome ten), also referred to as MMAC (mutated in multiple advanced cancers) phosphatase, is a tumor suppressor implicated in a wide variety of human cancers (1). PTEN encodes a 403 amino acid polypeptide originally described as a dual-specificity protein phosphatase (2). The main substrates of PTEN are inositol phospholipids generated by the activation of the phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) (3). PTEN is a major negative regulator of the PI3K/Akt signaling pathway (1,4,5). PTEN possesses a carboxy-terminal, noncatalytic regulatory domain with three phosphorylation sites (Ser380, Thr382, and Thr383) that regulate PTEN stability and may affect its biological activity (6,7). PTEN regulates p53 protein levels and activity (8) and is involved in G protein-coupled signaling during chemotaxis (9,10).
    Phosphoinositide-dependent protein kinase 1 (PDK1) plays a central role in many signal transduction pathways (11,12), including the activation of Akt and the PKC isoenzymes p70 S6 kinase and RSK (13). Through its effects on these kinases, PDK1 is involved in the regulation of a wide variety of processes, including cell proliferation, differentiation, and apoptosis.
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