| Immunogen | KLH-conjugatedsyntheticlinearpeptidecorrespondingtothehypervariableregionofRas,H,palmitoylated. | 
| Epitope | hypervariableregion | 
| Concentration | PleaserefertotheCertificateofAnalysisforthelot-specificconcentration. | 
| Host | Rabbit | 
| Specificity | ThisantibodydetectsthehypervariableregionRas,HPalmitoylated. | 
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| SpeciesReactivityNote | Human.ExpectedtoreactwithRat,MouseandChickenbasedonsequencehomology. | 
| AntibodyType | PolyclonalAntibody | 
| EntrezGeneNumber |  | 
| EntrezGeneSummary | ThisgenebelongstotheRasoncogenefamily,whosemembersarerelatedtothetransforminggenesofmammaliansarcomaretroviruses.Theproductsencodedbythesegenesfunctioninsignaltransductionpathways.TheseproteinscanbindGTPandGDP,andtheyhaveintrinsicGTPaseactivity.Thisproteinundergoesacontinuouscycleofde-andre-palmitoylation,whichregulatesitsrapidexchangebetweentheplasmamembraneandtheGolgiapparatus.MutationsinthisgenecauseCostellosyndrome,adisease characterizedbyincreasedgrowthattheprenatalstage,growthdeficiencyatthepostnatalstage,predispositiontotumorformation,mentalretardation,skinandmusculoskeletalabnormalities,distinctivefacialappearanceandcardiovascularabnormalities.Defectsinthisgeneareimplicatedinavarietyofcancers,includingbladdercancer,follicularthyroidcancer,andoralsquamouscellcarcinoma.Multipletranscriptvariants,whichencodedifferentisoforms,havebeenidentifiedforthisgene.[providedbyRefSeq].
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| GeneSymbol | - ALPS4
 - HRAS1
 - N-ras
 - NRAS1
 - OTTHUMP00000013879
 
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| PurificationMethod | AffinityPurfied | 
| UniProtNumber |  | 
| UniProtSummary | FUNCTION:RasproteinsbindGDP/GTPandpossessintrinsicGTPaseactivity.
  ENZYMEREGULATION:AlternatebetweenaninactiveformboundtoGDPandanactiveformboundtoGTP.Activatedbyaguaninenucleotide-exchangefactor(GEF)andinactivatedbyaGTPase-activatingprotein(GAP).
  SUBCELLULARLOCATION:Cellmembrane;Lipid-anchor;Cytoplasmicside.Golgiapparatusmembrane;Lipid-anchor.Note=ShuttlesbetweentheplasmamembraneandtheGolgiapparatus.
  PTM:PalmitoylatedbytheZDHHC9-GOLGA7complex.Acontinuouscycleofde-andre-palmitoylationregulatesrapidexchangebetweenplasmamembraneandGolgi.
  INVOLVEMENTINDISEASE:DefectsinNRASareacauseofjuvenilemyelomonocyticleukemia(JMML)[MIM:607785].JMMLisapediatricmyelodysplasticsyndromethatconstitutesapproximately30%ofchildhoodcasesofmyelodysplasticsyndrome(MDS)and2%ofleukemia.
  MutationswhichchangeAA12,13or61activatethepotentialofRastotransformculturedcellsandareimplicatedinavarietyofhumantumors.
  SEQUENCESIMILARITIES:BelongstothesmallGTPasesuperfamily.Rasfamily.
 
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| MolecularWeight | ~48kDa(Speculatedtohavespecificityfordimerizedform) |