The MYF5 Polyclonal Antibody, Cy5 Conjugated from Bioss Inc. is a Rabbit Polyclonal antibody to MYF5, and myogenic factor 5. This antibody recognizes Mouse, and Rat antigen. The MYF5 Polyclonal Antibody, Cy5 Conjugated has been shown to work in the following applications: Immunocytochemistry, Immunofluorescence, Immunohistochemistry, Immunohistochemistry - fixed, and Immunohistochemistry - frozen.
Description
Differentiation of myogenic cells is regulated by multiple positively and negatively acting factors. One well characterized family of helix-loop-helix (HLH) proteins known to play an important role in the regulation of muscle cell development include Myo D, myogenin, Myf-5 and Myf-6 (also designated MRF-4 or herculin). Of interest, most muscle cells express either Myo D or Myf-5 in the committed state, but when induced to differentiate, all turn on expression of myogenin. Myo D transcription factors form heterodimers with products of a more widely expressed family of bHLH genes, the E family, which consists of at least three distinct genes: E2A, IF2 and HEB. Myo D-E heterodimers bind avidly to consensus (CANNTG) E box target sites that are functionally important elements in the upstream regulatory sequences of many muscle-specific terminal differentiation genes