Anti-MSX2 antibody produced in rabbit

MSH homeobox 2 (MSX2) is a transcriptional regulator which belongs to the MSX homeobox gene family. The gene encoding the protein is located on chromosome 5.

Homeobox protein MSX-2 recombinant protein epitope signature tag (PrEST)

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MSH homeobox 2 (MSX2) is involved in skull (craniofacial) development. Enhanced levels of transcripts for MSX2 are present in a variety of carcinoma cell lines of epithelial origin compared to their corresponding normal tissues. However, this enhanced expression is not found in hematopoietic tumor cells, showing that it plays a more important role in tumors of epithelial origin than in those of hematopoietic origin. MSX2 is an important downstream target for the Ras signaling pathway. Also, it activates cyclin D1 expression and inhibits cellular differentiation suggesting that it is associated with tumorigenesis, since cyclin D1 overexpression is found in various carcinomas like breast and pancreatic cancer. Msx2 is a key regulator of programmed cell death in the BMP-mediated pathway, where bone morphogenetic protein 4 (BMP4) functions as an inducer of its expression and function.

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• IHC tissue array of 44 normal human tissues and 20 of the most common cancer type tissues.
• Protein array of 364 human recombinant protein fragments.

Solution in phosphate-buffered saline, pH 7.2, containing 40% glycerol and 0.02% sodium azide

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