Description
Product Characteristics: The kit is a sandwich enzyme immunoassay for in vitro quantitative measurement of osteonectin in rat serum, plasma, tissue homogenates, cell lysates, cell culture supernates.
Target Information: This gene encodes a cysteine-rich acidic matrix-associated protein. The encoded protein is required for the collagen in bone to become calcified but is also involved in extracellular matrix synthesis and promotion of changes to cell shape. The gene product has been associated with tumor suppression but has also been correlated with metastasis based on changes to cell shape which can promote tumor cell invasion. [provided by RefSeq, Dec 2011]