Cytokeratin 5 Monoclonal Antibody (RCK103)

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Product Description

MA1-06312 detects basal cell cytokeratin in human, quail, chicken, rat, rabbit, hamster, canine, and guinea pig samples. MA1-06312 has sucessfully been used in Western blotting, flow cytometry, immunocytochemistry, and immunohistochemistry. By Western blotting, it detects a ~300 kDa protein representing basal cell cytokeratin. The MA1-06312 immunogen is a mix of cell preparations containing human cytokeratins. Cytokeratins are a subfamily of intermediate filament proteins and are characterized by a remarkable biochemical diversity, represented in human epithelial tissues by at least 20 different polypeptides. They range in molecular weight between approximately40 kDa and approximately68 kDa and isoelectric pH between 4. 9 - 7. 8. The individual human cytokeratins are numbered 1 to 20. The various epithelia in the human body usually express cytokeratins which are not only characteristic of the type of epithelium, but also related to the degree of maturation or differentiation within an epithelium. Cytokeratin subtype expression patterns are used to an increasing extent in the distinction of different types of epithelial malignancies. The cytokeratin antibodies are not only of assistance in the differential diagnosis of tumors using immunohistochemistry on tissue s