AGO4 | Argonaute 4
AS09 617 | Clonality: Polyclonal | Host: Rabbit | Reactivity: Arabidopsis thaliana, Hyacinthus orientalis

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Product Information
KLH-conjugated synthetic peptide chosen from Arabidopsis thaliana AGO4 sequence UniProt: Q9ZVD5 , TAIR: At2g27040
103 kDa
Reactivity
Arabidopsis thaliana
Application examples

360 µg/well of Arabidopsis thaliana protein extracted by TCA-acetone precipitation from floral tissue and saturated in 8M urea were separated on 15% SDS-PAGE and blotted for 1hour to 0.2 µm nitrocellulose at 100V using wet transfer system. Blots were blocked with 0.5% cold fish gelatin for 1hr at room temp with agitation. Blot was incubated in the primary antibody at a dilution of 1:2500 for an hour at RT with agitation. The blots were washed with 3X 15min TBS-TT at RT with agitation. Blots as incubated in the secondary antibody (goat anti-rabbit DyLight® 800 conjugated, AS12 2460, Agrisera) 1:5000 dilution for 30 min. at RT with agitation and washed 1X with TBSTT for 15 min, 1X with TBST for 15min before scanning with the ODyssey IRD scanner.
Courtesy of Dr. Betty Chung and Pawel Baster, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Additional information
AGO expression may be tissue specific and using floral tissue is recommended where most of the AGOs are expressed the highest. Use of proteasome inhibitors as MG132 can help to stabilize AGO proteins during extraction procedure. Use a 6 % gel for protein separation, which is run longer to avoid a cross-reactivity at ca. 40 kDa.
Binds endogenous siRNAs, preference for 24nt siRNAs with 5' A.
Note that the AGO4 antibody reacts with the NEB prestained protein marker.
Background
AGO4 (Argonaute 4) belongs to a group of argonaute proteins which are catalytic component of the RNA-incudes silencing complex (RISC). This protein complex is responsible for the gene silencing (RNAi).
Product citations
Oliver & Martinez. (2021) Accumulation dynamics of ARGONAUTE proteins during meiosis in Arabidopsis. Plant Reprod. 2021 Nov 23. doi: 10.1007/s00497-021-00434-z. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34812935.
Niedojad?o et al. (2020). Dynamic distribution of ARGONAUTE1 (AGO1) and ARGONAUTE4 (AGO4) in Hyacinthus orientalis L. pollen grains and pollen tubes growing in vitro. Protoplasma. 2020 Jan 8. doi: 10.1007/s00709-019-01463-2.
Sprunck et al. (2019). Elucidating small RNA pathways in Arabidopsis thaliana egg cells. http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/525956
Yang et al. (2017). The developmental regulator PKL is required to maintain correct DNA methylation patterns at RNA-directed DNA methylation loci. Genome Biol. 2017 May 31;18(1):103. doi: 10.1186/s13059-017-1226-y.
Li et al. (2016). Biogenesis of phased siRNAs on membrane-bound polysomes in Arabidopsis. Elife. 2016 Dec 12;5. pii: e22750. doi: 10.7554/eLife.22750.
Zhai et al. (2015). A One Precursor One siRNA Model for Pol IV-Dependent siRNA Biogenesis. Cell. 2015 Oct 8;163(2):445-55. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.09.032.
Han et al. (2014). SUVR2 is involved in transcriptional gene silencing by associating with SNF2-related chromatin-remodeling proteins in Arabidopsis. Cell Res. 2014 Nov 25. doi: 10.1038/cr.2014.156. (coimmunoprecipitation)
Zhang et al. (2013). DTF1 is a core component of RNA-directed DNA methylation and may assist in the recruitment of Pol IV. PNAS, May 14.
Havecker et al. (2010) The RNA-directed DNA methylation Arabidopsis Argonautes functionally diverge based on expression and interaction with target loci. Plant Cell 22(2): 321-34.
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