Description
Product Characteristics: The kit is a sandwich enzyme immunoassay for in vitro quantitative measurement of AST2 in mouse serum, plasma, tissue homogenates, cell lysates, cell culture supernates.
Target Information: This gene encodes a membrane transporter that exports free sialic acids that have been cleaved off of cell surface lipids and proteins from lysosomes. Mutations in this gene cause sialic acid storage diseases, including infantile sialic acid storage disorder and and Salla disease, an adult form. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]