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Mouse Lumican Alexa Fluor™ Plus 488-conjugated Antibody

R&D Systems, part of Bio-Techne | Catalog # AF2745AFP488

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AF2745AFP488-100UG

Key Product Details

Species Reactivity

Mouse

Applications

Immunohistochemistry, Western Blot

Label

Alexa Fluor Plus 488 (Excitation = 493 nm, Emission = 518 nm)

Antibody Source

Polyclonal Goat IgG

Product Specifications

Specificity

Detects mouse Lumican in direct ELISAs and Western blots.

Clonality

Polyclonal

Host

Goat

Isotype

IgG

Applications

Application
Recommended Usage

Immunohistochemistry

Optimal dilution of this antibody should be experimentally determined.

Western Blot

Optimal dilution of this antibody should be experimentally determined.

Background: Lumican

Lumican is a 40 kDa member of the family of small leucine-rich repeat proteoglycans (SLRPs) and the class II subfamily (1). Mouse Lumican is synthesized as a 338 amino acid (aa) precursor that contains an 18 aa signal sequence and a 320 aa mature chain (SwissProt #: 51885). The mature chain contains a negatively charged N‑terminal domain containing sulfated tyrosine and disulfide bonds, 12 leucine-rich repeats (LRRs), four potential sites of N-linked glycosylation, and a carboxyl terminal domain containing two conserved cysteines (1). Mature mouse Lumican is 98%, 88%, and 70% aa identical to mature rat, human, and chick Lumican, respectively. SLRPs constitute an important fraction of noncollagenous extracellular matrix proteins (ECM) proteins (1-2). Lumican is expressed in a variety of tissues, including skin, artery, lung, cornea, kidney, bone, aorta, and articular cartilage (1). Lumican’s role in vivo has been found using Lumican null mice. These mice have functional deficits including corneal opacity as well as skin and tendon fragility associated with disorganized and loosely packed collagen fibers (1, 3-6). The abnormal connective tissue phenotype seen in the Lumican null mice shows the importance of the role of Lumican in collagen fibrillogenesis (1). In addition to the control of collagen fibril assembly, Lumican has been shown to play a role in the regulation of cell proliferation (7-8), migration (8-9), and adhesion (9). Lumican’s overexpression has been reported in carcinoid tumor, breast, colorectal, neuroendocrine, uterine cervical, and pancreatic cancers (10).

References

  1. Nikitovic, D. et al. (2008) IUBMB Life 60:818.
  2. Blochberger, T.C. et al. (1992) J. Biol. Chem. 267:347.
  3. Chakravarti, S. et al. (1998) J. Cell Biol. 141:1277.
  4. Chakravarti, S. et al. (2000) Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 41:3365.
  5. Jepsen, K.J. et al. (2002) J. Biol. Chem. 277:35532.
  6. Chakravarti, S. et al. (2003) Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 44:2422.
  7. Vuillermoz, B. et al. (2004) Exp. Cell Res. 296:294
  8. Nikitovic, D. et al. (2008) FEBS J. 275:350.
  9. D’Onofrio, M.F. et al. (2008) Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 365:266.
  10. Ishiwata, T. et al. (2007) Oncol. Rep. 18:537.

Alternate Names

LDC, LUM, SLRR2D

Entrez Gene IDs

4060 (Human); 17022 (Mouse)

Gene Symbol

LUM

UniProt

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Product Specific Notices


This product is provided under an intellectual property license from Life Technologies Corporation. The transfer of this product is conditioned on the buyer using the purchased product solely in research conducted by the buyer, excluding contract research or any fee for service research, and the buyer must not (1) use this product or its components for (a) diagnostic, therapeutic or prophylactic purposes; (b) testing, analysis or screening services, or information in return for compensation on a per-test basis; or (c) manufacturing or quality assurance or quality control, and/or (2) sell or transfer this product or its components for resale, whether or not resold for use in research. For information on purchasing a license to this product for purposes other than as described above, contact Life Technologies Corporation, 5781 Van Allen Way, Carlsbad, CA 92008 USA or outlicensing@thermofisher.com.

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