TERT Antibody - C-terminal region

Polyclonal Antibody

Wet Ice

TERT

Liquid PBS containing 50% glycerol, 0.5% BSA and 0.02% sodium azide.

Telomerase is a ribonucleoprotein polymerase that maintains telomere ends by addition of the telomere repeat TTAGGG. The enzyme consists of a protein component with reverse transcriptase activity, encoded by this gene, and an RNA component which serves as a template for the telomere repeat. Telomerase expression plays a role in cellular senescence, as it is normally repressed in postnatal somatic cells resulting in progressive shortening of telomeres. Deregulation of telomerase expression in somatic cells may be involved in oncogenesis. Studies in mouse suggest that telomerase also participates in chromosomal repair, since de novo synthesis of telomere repeats may occur at double-stranded breaks. Alternatively spliced variants encoding different isoforms of telomerase reverse transcriptase have been identified; the full-length sequence of some variants has not been determined. Alternative splicing at this locus is thought to be one mechanism of regulation of telomerase activity.

The antibody was affinity-purified from rabbit antiserum by affinity-chromatography using epitope-specific immunogen.

TERT Polyclonal Antibody detects endogenous levels of TERT protein.