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Products Polyclonal Anti-human SCF
| Catalogue number: | RP1010 |
| Price: | $240.00 |
| Reactivities: | Human |
| Applications: | ELISA, Western Blot |
| Size: | 100ug/vial |
| Gene: | KITLG |
| Swiss prot: | P21583 |
| Form: | Lyophilized |
| Format: | Each vial contains 0.9mg NaCl, 0.2mg Na2HPO4, 0.05mg NaN3. |
| Storage temp: | "At -20 degree C for one year. After reconstitution, at 4 degree C for one month. It can also be aliquotted and stored frozen at -20 degree C for a longer time. Avoid repeated freezing and thawing. " |
| Scientific background: | Stem Cell Factor (also known as SCF, kit-ligand, KL, or steel factor) is a cytokine that binds to the c-Kit receptor (CD117). The SCF gene is mapped to 12q21.32. SCF can exist both as a transmembrane protein and a soluble protein. This cytokine plays an important role in hematopoiesis (formation of blood cells), spermatogenesis, and melanogenesis. SCF may be used along with other cytokines to culture HSCs and hematopoietic progenitors. The expansion of these cells ex-vivo (outside the body) would allow advances in bone-marrow transplantation, in which HSCs are transferred to a patient to re-establish blood formation. One of the problems of injecting SCF for therapeutic purposes is that SCF activates mast cells. The injection of SCF has been shown to cause allergic-like symptoms and the proliferation of mast cells and melanocytes. |
| References: | 1. Geissler, E. N., Liao, M., Brook, J. D., Martin, F. H., Zsebo, K. M., Housman, D. E., Galli, S. J.Stem cell factor (SCF), a novel hematopoietic growth factor and ligand for c-kit tyrosine kinase receptor, maps on human chromosome 12 between 12q14.3 and 12qter.Somat. Cell Molec. Genet. 17: 207-214, 1991. 2. Heissig, B., Hattori, K., Dias, S., Friedrich, M., Ferris, B., Hackett, N. R., Crystal, R. G., Besmer, P., Lyden, D., Moore, M. A. S., Werb, Z., Rafii, S.Recruitment of stem and progenitor cells from the bone marrow niche requires MMP-9 mediated release of Kit-ligand.Cell 109: 625-637, 2002. |
| Additional info: | E. coli-derived human SCF recombinant protein (Position: E26-A190). |
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