VHR Antibody detects endogenous levels of total VHR prtein. This antibody does not cross-react with other dual-specific pho sphatases.
Source / Purification
Polyclonal antibodies are produced by immunizing animals with a synthetic peptide corresponding to human VHR. Antibodies are purified by protein A and peptide affinity chromatography.
Background
VHR (VH1 related, also known as DUSP3) is a small dual-specific phosphatase with specificity for MAP kinase ERK1/2 and JNK, but not for p38 MAPK (1,2). Unlike most of the dual-specific phosphatases, which have inducible expression patterns, VHR is constitutively expressed (2). In antigen stimulated T cells, VHR is phosphorylated by ZAP-70 at Tyr138 (3). Tyr138 phosphorylation is required for VHR to down-regulate the ERK and JNK pathways (3).