Mouse mCherry Monoclonal Antibody

mCherry Antibody

Cat. Num. AAA415041

• Applications: Immunofluorescence, Western Blot
• Purity: Affinity purified
• Synonyms: mCherry; Monoclonal Antibody; mCherry Antibody; anti-mCherry antibody

• Host: Mouse
• Clonality: Monoclonal
• Isotype: IgG2a
• Purity/Purification: Affinity purified
• Form/Format: Liquid
• Concentration: 100ug/100ul (varies by lot)
• Sequence Length: 236

• Applicable Applications for anti-mCherry antibody: Immunofluorescence (IF), Western Blot (WB)
• Application Notes: Try at dilutions of 1:500 and higher for immunofluorescence. For western blots try at 1:2,000.
• Immunogen: mCherry is an engineered derivative of one of a family of proteins originally isolated from Cnidarians (jelly fish, sea anemones and corals). The prototype for these fluorescent proteins is Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP), which is a ~27kDa protein isolated originally from the jellyfish Aequoria victoria. GFP was the basis of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, awarded to Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien, specifically "for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP". On expression from the GFP gene, GFP protein will fold correctly and fluoresce strongly, the development of fluoresence requires no cofactors except molecular oxygen. It can therefore be expressed in fluorescent form in essentially any prokaryotic or eukaryotic cell under aerobic conditions (1). As a result, DNA encoding GFP can be fused to DNA encoding other proteins as a means to visualize the resulting fusion protein in live cells or animals. Engineered forms of GFP and relatives have been developed to monitor Calcium levels, protease activation and a variety of other processes in real time. A whole range of GFP derivatives with different spectral properties have been developed, largely in the Tsien lab. The mCherry protein was derived from DsRed, a red fluorescent protein from so-called disc corals of the genus Discosoma. DsRed is a 223 amino acid, ~28kDa protein similar in size and properties to GFP, but, obviously, produces a red rather than a green fluorochrome. The original DsRed was engineered extensively in the Tsien lab to prevent it from forming tetramers and dimers and to modify and improve the spectral properties (2-4). The resulting monomeric protein is useful for applications such as Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET, also known as Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer). Several further cycles of mutation, directed modification and evolutionary selection produced mCherry, which is monomeric and has an excitation maximum at 587 nm and an emission maximum at 610 nm (5). We expressed the mCherry protein sequence shown in reference 5 in bacteria, purified out the mCherry and raised several mouse monoclonal antibodies. 1C51 was affinity purified and was found to stain a band of the expected size in Hek293 cells transfected with a vector designed to express mCherry which was developed in the Tsien lab and can obtained from Clontech.
• Storage Buffer: PBS, pH 7.4 with 0.02% sodium azide.
• Preparation and Storage: Store at -20 degree C/1 year

Western Blot (WB)

References

1. Chalfie M, Tu Y, Euskirchen G, Ward WW, Prasher DC Green fluorescent protein as a marker for gene expression. Science. 263:802-5 (1994).2. Baird GS, Zacharias DA, Tsien RY. Biochemistry, mutagenesis, and oligomerization of DsRed, a red fluorescent protein from coral. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 97:11984-9 (2000).3. Gross LA, Baird GS, Hoffman RC, Baldridge KK, Tsien RY. The structure of the chromophore within DsRed, a red fluorescent protein from coral. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 97:11990-5 (2000).4. Heikal AA, Hess ST, Baird GS, Tsien RY, Webb WW. Molecular spectroscopy and dynamics of intrinsically fluorescent proteins: coral red (dsRed) and yellow (Citrine). Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 97:11996-2001 (2000).5. Shaner NC, Campbell RE, Steinbach PA, Giepmans BN, Palmer AE, Tsien RY. Improved monomeric red, orange and yellow fluorescent proteins derived from Discosoma sp. red fluorescent protein. Nature Biotechnology 22:1567-1572 (2004).

NCBI and Uniprot Product Information

• NCBI GI #: 410073987
• NCBI Official Full Name: mCherry