Anti-Adam28 Antibody Picoband®

Disintegrin and metalloproteinase domain-containing protein 28 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ADAM28 gene. This gene encodes a member of the ADAM (a disintegrin and metalloprotease domain) family. Members of this family are membrane-anchored proteins structurally related to snake venom disintegrins, and have been implicated in a variety of biological processes involving cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions, including fertilization, muscle development, and neurogenesis. The protein encoded by this gene is a lymphocyte-expressed ADAM protein. And this gene is present in a gene cluster with other members of the ADAM family on chromosome 8. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants.

Disintegrin and metalloproteinase domain-containing protein 28; ADAM 28;3.4.24.-; Epididymal metalloproteinase-like, disintegrin-like, and cysteine-rich protein II; eMDC II; Metalloproteinase-like, disintegrin-like, and cysteine-rich protein L; MDC-L; ADAM28; ADAM23, MDCL

Expressed predominantly in secondary lymphoid tissues, such as lymph node, spleen, small intestine, stomach, colon, appendix and trachea. The lymphocyte population is responsible for expression of this protein in these tissues. Isoform 2 is expressed preferentially in spleen.

May play a role in the adhesive and proteolytic events that occur during lymphocyte emigration or may function in ectodomain shedding of lymphocyte surface target proteins, such as FASL and CD40L. May be involved in sperm maturation.

1. Bates, E. E. M., Fridman, W. H., Mueller, C. G. F. The ADAMDEC1 (decysin) gene structure: evolution by duplication in a metalloprotease gene cluster on chromosome 8p12. Immunogenetics 54: 96-105, 2002. 2. Bridges, L. C., Tani, P. H., Hanson, K. R., Roberts, C. M., Judkins, M. B., Bowditch, R. D. The lymphocyte metalloprotease MDC-L (ADAM28) is a ligand for the integrin alpha-4/beta-1. J. Biol. Chem. 277: 3784-3792, 2002. 3. Jury, J. A., Perry, A. C. F., Hall, L. Identification, sequence analysis and expression of transcripts encoding a putative metalloproteinase, eMDC II, in human and macaque epididymis. Molec. Hum. Reprod. 5: 1127-1134, 1999.

Store at -20°C for one year from date of receipt. After reconstitution, at 4°C for one month. It can also be aliquotted and stored frozen at -20°C for six months. Avoid repeated freeze-thaw cycles.