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- Peptide(C)EPKVKTQWPRSADE,correspondingtoaminoacidresidues277-290ofmouseBAI2(Accession Q8CGM1).Extracellular,N-terminus.

Westernblotanalysisofrat(lanes1and3)andmouse(lanes2and4)brainmembranes:1,2. Anti-BAI2(extracellular)Antibody(#ABR-022),(1:200).
3,4.Anti-BAI2(extracellular)Antibody,preincubatedwiththenegativecontrolantigen.
WesternblotanalysisofhumanSHSY-5Yneuroblastomacelllinelysates:1. Anti-BAI2(extracellular)Antibody(#ABR-022),(1:200).
2.Anti-BAI2(extracellular)Antibody,preincubatedwiththenegativecontrolantigen.
- 1.Okajima,D.etal.(2009)J.Recept.SignalTransduct.Res.30,143.
- 2.Jeong,B.C.etal.(2006)FEBSLett.580,669.
Brain-specificangiogenesisinhibitor2(BAI2)isamemberoftheadhesionG-proteincoupledreceptor(GPCR)family.BAI2,andothermembersofitsfamily,commonlyhavealongN-terminalextracellularregion(ECR)containingaGPCRproteolysissite(GPS)adjacenttotheseven-transmembrane(7TM)domain.ThelongN-terminuscontainscommonstructuraldomains,includingthrombospondintype-Irepeats(TSRs),epidermalgrowthfactor(EGF)-like,leucine-richrepeats,lectin-like,immunoglobulin(Ig),andcadherins.BAI2iscomposedof521aminoacidsandismainlyexpressedinneurons.
AlthoughBAI2isaGPCR,therearecurrentlynoreportsshowingevidenceofanyphysiologicalligands.Instead, BAI2isactivatedbycleavageanddissociationoftheECRfromits7TMfragment,andfunctionsasaGPCR.BAI2isglycosylatedandcleavedattheGPSbyfurinintheER.ThecleavedN-terminalECRassociateswiththeC-terminal7TMfragmentandtheyaretranslocatedtothecellsurface.TheECRassociatedwiththe7TMfragmentinteractswithothermembraneproteinsormatrixproteinsthroughtheTSRsanddissociatesfromthe7TMfragment.The7TMfragmentwhichhasreleasedtheassociatedECRchangesitsconformationintotheactivestateandactivatestheGprotein-coupledsignaling1.
BAI2isinvolvedintheearlystagesofneovascularizationofcerebralcortexafterischemia.DecreasedlevelsofBAI2induceincreasedVEGFexpressionmediatedbyGA-bindingproteingamma(GABPγ)incerebralischemiaandundernormalconditions2.
Anti-BAI2(extracellular)Antibody(#ABR-022)isahighlyspecificantibodydirectedagainstanepitopeofthemouseprotein.Theantibodycanbeusedinwesternblotanalysis.Theantibodyrecognizesanextracellularepitope,andcanpotentiallybeusedfordetectingtheproteininlivingcells.IthasbeendesignedtorecognizeBAI2fromrat,mouse,andhumansamples.


