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VPS4A Antibody (A-11) is an IgG2b κ mouse monoclonal VPS4A antibody that detects VPS4A of mouse, rat and human origin by WB, IP, IF and ELISA. VPS4A Antibody (A-11) is available as the non-conjugated anti-VPS4A antibody form, as well as multiple conjugated forms of anti-VPS4A antibody, including agarose, HRP, PE, FITC and multiple Alexa Fluor® conjugates. Class E vacuolar protein sorting (vps) proteins are necessary for the appropriate sorting of receptors in the yeast endocytic pathway. Yeast Vps4p is a member of the AAA protein family (ATPases associated with diverse cellular activities) and plays an important role in transporting proteins out of prevacuolar endosomal compartments. In humans, two non-allelic orthologous proteins, VPS4A and VPS4B, are known and can form heteromeric complexes with each other. Both VPS4A and VPS4B are class E VPSs and are involved in intracellular protein trafficking, similar to Vps4p in yeast. HIV-1 uses cellular machinery to bud from infected cells and requires the two human VPS4 proteins and tsg 101 (tumor susceptibility gene 101) for this budding process. Dominant negative mutants of VPS4 proteins inhibit vacuolar protein sorting and also arrest HIV-1 and MLV budding. Thus, retroviruses normally use the VPS pathway to form multivesicular bodies during the budding process.
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