Polyclonal antibody to Bag-1

This antibody recognizes both BAG-1 and BAG-1 isoforms which contain the peptide immunogen sequence, including BAG-1L. Mouse BAG-1 is a 219 amino acid (aa) protein. The BAG family contains at least six family members, including BAG-1 and its various isoforms [including BAG-1S , BAG-1M (RAP46/HAP46), and BAG-1L, BAG2, BAG3 (CAIR-1; Bis,), BAG4 (SODD), BAG5 and BAG6 (Scythe, BAT3). The BAG proteins are a family of chaperone regulators that modulate a number of diverse processes including proliferation, survival, stress responses, tumorigenesis, neuronal differentiation, growth arrest and apoptosis. BAG proteins have been characterized as co-chaperones and interact with the chaperone heat shock proteins 70, both constitutive Hsc70 and inducible Hsp70. BAG proteins bind through their BAG domain to the ATPase domain of Hsc70/Hsp70, and can modulate either positively or negatively the functions of the Hsc70/Hsp70 chaperone proteins. The BAG domain has been shown to contribute to the anti-apoptotic activity of BAG- family proteins. The anti-apoptotic activities of BAG-family proteins may be dependent on their interactions with Hsc70/Asp70 and/or binding to Bcl-2. In addition to the conserved BAG domain, BAG-family proteins also contain additional domains which enable them to interact with specific target proteins or to target them to specific locations within cells.