| 货号 | BAF788 |
| 别名 | GDF-8; GDF8growth differentiation factor 8; growth/differentiation factor 8; MSTN; Myostatin | 全称 | Growth Differentiation Factor 8 |
| 反应种属 | Human/Mouse/Rat |
| 应用 | Western Blot(0.1 µg/mL) Immunohistochemistry(5-15 µg/mL) |
| 目标/特异性 | Detects human, mouse, and rat GDF‑8/Myostatin in Western blots. In Western blots, approximately 15% cross-reactivity with recombinant human/mouse/rat GDF-11 is observed, 10% cross-reactivity with recombinant mouse (rm) GDF‑3 is observed, and less than 2% cross-reactivity with rmGDF-1, rmGDF-5, and rmGDF-6 is observed. |
| 使用方法 | Western Blot: 0.1 µg/mL Immunohistochemistry: 5-15 µg/mL |
| 来源 | Reconstitute at 0.2 mg/mL in sterile PBS. |
| 产品组分 |
| 供应商 | R&D Systems |
| Entrez Gene IDs | 2660 (Human); 17700 (Mouse) |
| 纯化方式 | Antigen Affinity-purified |
| 免疫原 | E. coli-derived recombinant mouse GDF‑8/Myostatin Asp268-Ser376 Accession # O08689 |
| 生物活性 | Human, Mouse, Rat |
| 标记 | Biotin |
| 溶解方法 | Reconstitute at 0.2 mg/mL in sterile PBS. |
| 背景 | Growth Differentiation Factor 8 (GDF-8), also known as myostatin, is a member of the TGF-beta superfamily that is expressed specifically in developing and adult skeletal muscle. GDF-8 cDNA encodes a 376 amino acid (aa) prepropeptide with a 24 aa residue signal peptide, a 223 aa residue amino-terminal propeptide, and a 109 aa residue carboxy-terminal mature protein. Mature GDF-8 contains the canonical 7-cysteine motif common to other TGF-beta superfamily members. Similar to the TGF‑ beta s, activins and BMP-11, GDF-8 also contains one extra pair of cysteine residues that is not found in other family members. The bioactive form of GDF-8 is a homodimer with an apparent molecular weight of approximately 25 kDa. GDF-8 is highly conserved across species. At the amino acid sequence level, mature human, mouse, rat and cow GDF-8 are 100% identical. Within the TGF-beta superfamily, GDF-8 is most closely related to BMP-11, a mammalian protein that acts as a dorsal mesoderm and neural inducer in Xenopusexplants. The two proteins share 90% amino acid sequence identity within their mature chain. A targeted disruption of GDF-8 in mouse results in large mice with a widespread increase in skeletal muscle mass, indicating that GDF-8 is a negative regulator of skeletal muscle growth. A mutation in the bovine GDF-8 gene has been shown to be responsible for the double-muscled phenotype in cattle breeds such as Belgian Blue cattle that is characterized by an increase in muscle mass. GDF‑8 has also been shown to inhibit preadipocyte differentiation to adipocytes. Mature GDF-8 binds to activin type II receptors and the binding is antagonized by the activin-binding protein, follistatin. R&D Systems recombinant GDF-8 preparations have been shown to act similarly to Activin A in both the Xenopus animal cap and the K562 assays. |
| 运输条件 | Blue Ice |
| 存放说明 | -20℃ |
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GDF‑8/Myostatin in Mouse Embryonic Lung. |
