Product Uses Include

• Studying actin polymerization in vitro.

• Studying the effects of actin binding proteins and drugs on actin polymerization in vitro.
  
  

Material
Purified rabbit muscle actin (Cat. # AKL99) has been modified to contain covalently linked pyrene at the cysteine 374 residue. An N-(1-pyrene) iodoacetamide is used to label the actin protein. Pyrene labeling stoichiometry has been determined to be 0.6 dyes per actin monomer. Pyrene labeled rabbit muscle actin has an approximate molecular weight of 43 kDa, and is supplied as a white lyophilized powder. The lyophilized protein is st able for 6 months when stored desiccated to <10% humidity at 4°C. The protein should be reconstituted to 20 mg/ml with distilled water; it will then be in the following buffer: 5 mM Tris-HCl pH 8.0, 0.2 mM CaCl2, 0.2 mM ATP, 5% sucrose, and 1% dextran.