Invitrogen™ Tetranectin Recombinant Rabbit Monoclonal Antibody (008)

Description

This product is preservative free. It is recommended to add sodium azide to avoid contamination (final concentration 0.05%-0.1%). Recombinant rabbit monoclonal antibodies are produced using in vitro expression systems. The expression systems are developed by cloning in the specific antibody DNA sequences from immunoreactive rabbits. Then, individual clones are screened to select the best candidates for production. The advantages of using recombinant rabbit monoclonal antibodies include: better specificity and sensitivity, lot-to-lot consistency, animal origin-free formulations, and broader immunoreactivity to diverse targets due to larger rabbit immune repertoire. This antibody has specificity for Human Tetranectin/CLEC3B.

Tetranectin (TN) is a serum and tissue protein, a C-type lectin, which binds to Ca++. It is a homotrimer of monomers each with a mass of 20 kDa, plasma or serum concentrations of TN are found to be approximately 10 mg/l. In vitro, TN can bind to kringle 4 of plasminogen and enhance the activation of plaminogen to plasmin, catalyzed by tissue plasminogen activator in the presence of poly-D-lysine. TN is best known as a prognostic marker in ovarian cancer.