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AB143

Sigma-Aldrich

Anti-Choline Acetyltransferase (ChAT) Antibody

serum, Chemicon®

Synonym(s):

Choline acetylase, acetyl CoA:choline O-acetyltransferase, choline acetyltransferase

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UNSPSC Code:
12352203
eCl@ss:
32160702
NACRES:
NA.41

biological source

rabbit

Quality Level

100

antibody form

serum

antibody product type

primary antibodies

clone

polyclonal

species reactivity

mouse, human, feline, bat, rat, monkey

manufacturer/tradename

Chemicon®

technique(s)

immunohistochemistry (formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded sections): suitable
immunoprecipitation (IP): suitable
western blot: suitable

NCBI accession no.

NP_065574

UniProt accession no.

P28329

shipped in

dry ice

target post-translational modification

unmodified

Gene Information

cat ... Chat(751512)
human ... CHAT(1103)
mouse ... Chat(12647)
rat ... Chat(290567)
rhesus monkey ... Chat(709977)

General description

Acetylcholine (ACh) is a common neurotransmitter for motoneurons, preganglionic autonomic neurons, postganglionic parasympathetic neurons, a variety of brain regions and some emerging neuron-like stem cells. The metabolism of Ach is relatively simple, involving only two enzymes: choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) for synthesis and acetylcholinesterase (AChE) for degradation. Further, acetylcholine has little function in neurons other than neurotransmission and seems to be neuron specific. It seems that only cholinergic neurons have significant amounts of ChAT making anti-cholinacetyltransferase a useful specific marker.

Specificity

Cholinergic neurons in brain and central nervous systems.
Reactivity with other species has not been confirmed with IHC.

Application

Anti-Choline Acetyltransferase (ChAT) Antibody is an antibody against Choline Acetyltransferase (ChAT) for use in IH, IH(P), IP & WB with more than 70 product citations.
Immunoprecipitation:
1:200 dilution of a previous lot immunoprecipitated 68 kDa active ChAT from brain and placenta. Also precipitates a 27 kDa protein that is co-expressed with ChAT (but lacking ChAT activity) in some cholinergic neurons of the central nervous system of Humans and possibly other mammals.

Optimal working dilutions and protocls must be determined by end user.

Quality

Routinely evaluated by immunohistochemistry (paraffin) on normal cerebral cortex tissue.

Immunohistochemistry (Paraffin) Analysis:
ChAT (cat. # AB143) staining on normal cerebral cortex. Tissue treated with no antigen retrieval. The antibody was diluted to 1:100, using IHC-Select Detection with HRP-DAB. Immunoreactivity is seeing as a staining pattern on the cell body, dendrites and axons of neurons (brown).

Physical form

Rabbit polyclonal antisera, liquid, no preservatives.

Analysis Note

Control
Cerebral cortex tissue.

Other Notes

Concentration: Please refer to the Certificate of Analysis for the lot-specific concentration.

Legal Information

CHEMICON is a registered trademark of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany

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Storage Class Code

10 - Combustible liquids

WGK

WGK 1

Flash Point(F)

Not applicable

Flash Point(C)

Not applicable

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The putative role of the basal forebrain cholinergic system in mediating lesion-induced plasticity in topographic cortical representations was investigated. Cholinergic immunolesions were combined with unilateral restricted cochlear lesions in adult cats, demonstrating the consequence of cholinergic depletion on lesion-induced plasticity
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The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 34(8), 2832-2844 (2014-02-21)
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