Human Placental Lactogen/CSH1 Alexa Fluor® 488-conjugated Antibody
R&D Systems, part of Bio-Techne | Catalog # FAB5757G

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Immunogen
Val27-Phe217
Accession # P01243
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Immunohistochemistry
Western Blot
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Background: Placental Lactogen/CSH1
Human Placental Lactogen (abbreviated PL or hPL), also called chorionic somatomammotropin hormone 1 (abbreviated CSH1), is a member of the prolactin/growth hormone (PRL/GH) family (1). It is found in a cluster of growth hormones on chromosome 17 that appear to have a common ancestry. Identical 191 amino acid (aa) mature hPL proteins may be formed from one of two genes (2). PL contains a pair of C-terminal cysteines that may form either intra- or interchain disulfides. Human PL shares 98% aa identity with chimpanzee PL and >85% aa sequence identity with other human growth hormones, but only ~25% aa identity with mouse, ovine or bovine PL. PL is mainly expressed by cells in the syncytiotrophoblast layer of the placenta, which produce increasing amounts of PL as pregnancy proceeds. The major portion enters the maternal circulation, where it joins GH2 (placenta-specific GH) in replacing the functions of pituitary GH during pregnancy. A smaller amount of PL circulates in the fetus. Primate PL shows high affinity for the PRL receptor and low affinity for the GH receptor (1). Reduced stimulation of PL by angiotensin 2 correlates with intrauterine growth restriction (3). There is some evidence that mature angiogenic PL may be cleaved to form an anti-angiogenic N-terminal fragment (4). Although PL promotes pancreatic beta cell survival, it does not appear to be altered in gestational diabetes. It helps prepare mammaries for lactation, but probably does not influence lactation itself. PL may be a ligand of stabilin-1, which has been proposed to regulate PL internalization and degradation or re-expression (6).
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