The RAT ANTI HUMAN CD49f Antibody from MyBioSource.com is a Rat Monoclonal antibody to CD49f, Integrin alpha 6, Integrin alpha6, and ITGA6. This antibody recognizes Human antigen. The RAT ANTI HUMAN CD49f Antibody has been shown to work in the following applications: Flow Cytometry, Immunohistochemistry, and Immunoprecipitation.
Description
Rat anti Human CD49f antibody, clone NKI-GoH3 recognizes CD49F (VLA-6 alpha chain), a 120kD cell surface glycoprotein that can form distinct complexes with CD29 (VLA beta-chain), resulting in the VLA-6 (alpha-6 beta-1) complex, which is expressed on human platelets, or with the beta-4 integrin resulting in the alpha-6 beta-4 complex which is expressed on various human epithelial cells. Clone NKI-GoH3 reacts with platelets, megakaryocytes, T lymphocytes and common Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia cells (alpha-6 beta-1). In immunohistology the monoclonal antibody reacts with epithelial cells of a variety of tissues, peripheral nerves, microvascular endothelial cells, placenta cyto- and syncytotrophoblasts.VLA-6 is an important mediator of cell binding to laminin. Studies suggest that clone NKI-GoH3 specifically blocks the binding of cells to the E8 fragment of laminin (Sonnenberg et al. 1998)