DFFA-Polyclonal Antibodies

Apoptosis is a cell death process that removes toxic and/or useless cells during mammalian development. The apoptotic process is accompanied by shrinkage and fragmentation of the cells and nuclei and degradation of the chromosomal DNA into nucleosomal units. DNA fragmentation factor (DFF), a heterodimeric protein of 40-kD (DFFB) and 45-kD (DFFA) subunits, is one of the major endonucleases responsible for internucleosomal DNA cleavage during apoptosis. DFFA is the substrate for caspase-3 and triggers DNA fragmentation during apoptosis. DFF becomes activated when DFFA is cleaved by caspase-3. The cleaved fragments of DFFA dissociate from DFFB, the active component of DFF. DFFB has been found to trigger both DNA fragmentation and chromatin condensation during apoptosis. Assignment of the DNA fragmentation factor gene (DFFA) to human chromosome bands 1p36.3-2 by in situ hybridization

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