Product Datasheet
Blimp-1 Antibody
Catalog Number: 24475
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Description
- Swiss-Prot No.:
- Swiss-Prot:O75626
Gene ID:639
- Form of Antibody:
- Supplied in PBS containing 0.02% sodium azide.
- Storage:
- Can be stored at -20˚C, stable for one year. As with all antibodies care should be taken to avoid repeated freeze thaw cycles. Antibodies should not be exposed to prolonged high temperatures.
- Immunogen:
- Raised against a 17 amino acid peptide from near the amino terminus of human Blimp-1.
- other_names:
- B-lymphocyte-induced maturation protein 1, PR domain-containing protein 1, PRDI-binding factor 1, PRDI-BF1
- Purification:
- Affinity chromatography purified via peptide column
- Applications:
- ELISA WB IHC
- Background:
- Blimp-1 was initially identified as a zinc finger-containing protein that drives the maturation of B lymphocytes into immunoglobulin-secreting cells. Together with X-box-binding protein 1 (XBP1), Blimp-1 is induced upon terminal differentiation of plasma cells. The transcriptional repressor activity of Blimp-1 has also been found to regulate T cell homeostasis and function, possibly by suppressing the expression of the cytokines IL-2 and interferon-gamma during T cell development. More recent experiments have suggested that Blimp-1 also plays a major role in the formation of primordial germ cells (PGC) in developing mammalian embryos. In these experiments, Blimp-1-deficient mutant mouse embryos form a cluster of PGC-like cells which fail to show the expected migration, proliferation, and repression of homeobox genes that normally accompany specification of primordial germ cells. Blimp-1 exists as at least two different isoforms.
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