Anti-Integrin beta-7 [FIB504]

FIB504 recognizes an epitope on intergin beta-7 subunit that overlaps completely with the epitope defined by Fib27 and Fib30, and also partially with the epitope defined by FIB21 and FIB22. In the mouse beta-7 is selectively found on the majority of mature lymphocytes, whereas a small subpopulation of thymocytes and bone marrow cells express beta-7. Beta-7 is also expressed in variable amounts in CD4 T memory cells. Integrin molecules mediate cell-cell and cell-extracellular matrix adhesion and are involved in lymphocyte homing, leukocyte recruitment to inflammatory sites, myogenesis, hemopoiesis, and melanoma metastasis.