ANTI-HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 60

Monoclonal Anti-Heat Shock Protein 60 antibody produced in mouse has been used in:western blotting, immunocytochemistry, enzyme linked immuno sorbent assay (ELISA) ,immunoblotting

Monoclonal Anti-Heat Shock Protein 60 (HSP60), clone LK2, recognizes an epitope located between amino acid residues 383-419 of the human (corresponding to a.a. residues 356-393 of the mycobacterial) HSP60. The antibody is reactive against the mammalian (e.g., human, rat), avian (e.g., chicken), bacterial (e.g., E. coli), helminths and spinach HSP60. In immunoblotting, the antibody may label additional bands at approx. 38 and 97 kDa. It is reactive with both the constitutive and the inducible HSP60. It shows a raised level of staining in immunohistochemistry of formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded synovial membranes taken from patients with juvenile chronic arthritis.

A wide variety of environmental perturbations, such as a sudden increase in temperature, induce cells to rapidly synthesize a group of polypeptides known as the heat shock (stress) proteins. HSP-60 is considered to be a potential antigen in a number of autoimmune diseases. Abnormal immune reactivity involving shock protein 60 (HSP60) has also been implicated in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia. This monoclonal antibody enables the differentiation between the HSP60 of mammalian and bacterial origin.