ELISA: 1/8000. Western Blot: 1 - 3 μg/mL. Other applications not tested. Optimal dilutions are dependent on conditions and should be determined by the user.
Restrictions
For Research Use only
Concentration
0,5 mg/mL
Buffer
Tris saline, 0.02 % sodium azide, pH 7.3 with 0.5 % bovine serum albumin
Preservative
Sodium azide
Precaution of Use
This product contains sodium azide: a POISONOUS AND HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE which should be handled by trained staff only.
Handling Advice
Avoid repeated freezing and thawing.
Storage
4 °C/-20 °C
Storage Comment
Store the antibody undiluted at 2-8 °C for one month or (in aliquots) at -20 °C for longer.
Glutamate receptors constitute the principal excitatory neurotransmitter receptors in brain. Two classes of glutamate receptors exist: Ionotropic receptors, and metabotropic receptors (mGluRs). Ionotropic glutamate receptors are oligomeric complexes of various subunits (GluR1 7, NMDA1 3, KAI 2) which comprise ligand gated calcium channels. Metabotropic glutamate receptors are G protein coupled receptors that contain 7 membrane spanning domains and a large extracellular N terminal region. When activated, they can activate phopholipases or adenylylcyclase, depending on the neuron. The group I receptors mGluR1 and mGluR5 activate phospholipase C. By screening a human brain cDNA library with a rat mGluR1 alpha cDNA under low stringency conditions, Minakami et al. (1993) and Minakami et al. (1994) isolated human cDNAs encoding mGluR5. Minakami et al. (1993) identified a longer isoform of mGluR5 (mGluR5B).Synonyms: EAA3, Excitatory amino acid receptor 3, GRIK1, Glutamate receptor ionotropic kainate 1