Aurora B/AIM1 Antibody detects endogenous levels of Aurora B/AIM1 protein.
Source / Purification
Polyclonal antibodies are produced by immunizing animals with a synthetic peptide corresponding to the amino terminus of human Aurora B/AIM1. Antibodies are purified by protein A and peptide affinity chromatography.
Background
Aurora A (AIK) is a cell cycle-regulated serine/threonine protein kinase that is overexpressed in many tumor cell lines (1-3). Phosphorylation of Aurora A at Thr288 within the kinase activation loop results in a significant increase in its activity and may target the protein for proteasomal degradation during mitosis (4). The closely-related kinase Aurora B (AIM1) has been implicated in multiple mitotic events (5) and siRNA silencing of Aurora B expression results in reduced histone H3 phosphorylation, aberrant chromosome alignment/segregation and altered survivin localization (6).