Catalogue number: | PA2048-1 |
Price: | $200.00 |
Reactivities: | Human |
Applications: | Western Blot |
Size: | 100ug/vial |
Gene: | POSTN |
Swiss prot: | Q15063 |
Form: | Lyophilized |
Format: | Each vial contains 5mg BSA, 0.9mg NaCl, 0.2mg Na2HPO4, 0.05mg Thimerosal, 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: | POSTN (Periostin), also known as PN or OSF2, is a protein that in humans is encoded by the POSTN gene. The International Radiation Hybrid Mapping Consortium mapped the POSTN gene to chromosome 13. Gillan et al. (2002) found that purified recombinant PN supported adhesion of ovarian epithelial cells. Shao et al. (2004) found that periostin was overexpressed by the majority of human primary breast cancers examined. Transfected tumor cell lines overexpressing periostin showed accelerated growth and angiogenesis as xenografts in immunocompromised animals. Kuhn et al. (2007) showed that extracellular periostin induced reentry of differentiated mammalian cardiomyocytes into the cell cycle. |
References: | 1. Gillan, L., Matei, D., Fishman, D. A., Gerbin, C. S., Karlan, B. Y., Chang, D. D. Periostin secreted by epithelial ovarian carcinoma is a ligand for alpha-V-beta-3 and alpha-V-beta-5 integrins and promotes cell motility. Cancer Res. 62: 5358-5364, 2002. 2. Kuhn, B., del Monte, F., Hajjar, R. J., Chang, Y.-S., Lebeche, D., Arab, S., Keating, M. T. Periostin induces proliferation of differentiated cardiomyocytes and promotes cardiac repair. Nature Med. 13: 962-969, 2007. 3. Shao, R., Bao, S., Bai, X., Blanchette, C., Anderson, R. M., Dang, T., Gishizky, M. L., Marks, J. R., Wang, X.-F. Acquired expression of periostin by human breast cancers promotes tumor angiogenesis through up-regulation of vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2 expression. Molec. Cell. Biol. 24: 3992-4003, 2004. |
Additional info: | A synthetic peptide corresponding to a sequence at the C-terminus of human POSTN, different from the related mouse sequence by five amino acids, and from the related rat sequence by four amino acids. |