Western Blotting (WB), ELISA, Immunocytochemistry (ICC)
Specificity
MFN1 antibody is human, mouse and rat reactive. MFN1 antibody is predicted to not cross-react with MFN2.
Purification
MFN1 antibody is affinity chromatography purified via peptide column.
Immunogen
MFN1 antibody was raised against a 17 amino acid peptide near the amino terminus of human MFN1. The immunogen is located within amino acids 20 - 70 of MFN1.
Mitofusin 1 (MFN1) and the related protein MFN2 are mitochondrial membrane GTPase proteins that play a central role in mitochondrial metabolism and may be associated with obesity and/or apoptosis processes (1,2). MFN1 and MFN2 form homotypic and heterotypic complexes and coordinately regulate mitochondrial fusion and are essential for embryonic development (3). When ectopically expressed, MFN1 inhibits the apoptosis-associated amino-terminal conformation change in the apoptotic protein Bax but not its mitochondrial translocation, indicating that MFN1 is involved in the regulating the activation of Bax on the outer mitochondrial membrane (4).