Background: Nephrocystin-2 is a 1,065 amino acid protein that exists as three alternatively spliced isoforms and is essential for establishment of the left-right axis and normal renal development. Localizing to the cytoplasm, cytoskeleton, membrane and nucleus, nephrocystin-2 is expressed during presomite-stage embryos and persists in adulthood, with high levels of expression in liver and kidney. Mice expressing nephrocystin-2 mutations are primarily generated by random insertional mutagenesis and result in the reversal of left/right polarity and cyst formation in the kidneys. Furthermore, altered nephrocystin-2 function reverses nodal and lefty expression, indicating that nephrocystin-2 signaling occurs upstream of these proteins involved in the development of asymmetry.
Description: Rabbit polyclonal to Inversin
Immunogen: KLH conjugated synthetic peptide derived from Inversin
Specificity: ·Reacts with Human, Mouse and Rat.
·Isotype: IgG
Application: ·Western blotting: 1/100-500. Predicted Mol wt: 118 kDa;
·Immunohistochemistry (Paraffin/frozen tissue section): 1/50-200;
·Immunocytochemistry/Immunofluorescence: 1/100;
·Immunoprecipitation: 1/50;
·ELISA: 1/500;
·Optimal working dilutions must be determined by the end user.
