Description
endocrine cells of the lung. Under normal expression conditions, procalcitonin is immediately cleaved into three specific fragments, an N terminal residue, calcitonin and katacalcin. Levels of unprocessed procalcitonin rise significantly after bacterial infection, trauma or shock. Calcitonin causes a rapid but short-lived drop in the level of calcium and phosphate in blood by promoting the incorporation of these ions in bone. Procalcitonin Human Recombinant produced in E.Coli is a single, non-glycosylated polypeptide chain containing 116 amino acids and a His tag with a molecular mass of 18.2kDa. Procalcitonin is purified by standard chromatography techniques