Anti-PDX1/Ipf1 Rabbit Monoclonal Antibody

Pancreas/duodenum homeobox protein 1; PDX-1; Glucose-sensitive factor; GSF; Insulin promoter factor 1; IPF-1; Insulin upstream factor 1; IUF-1; Islet/duodenum homeobox-1; IDX-1; Somatostatin-transactivating factor 1; STF-1; PDX1; IPF1, STF1

Atherosclerosis, Cancer, Cardiovascular, Developmental Biology, Diabetes, Diabetes-associated, Epigenetics and Nuclear Signaling, Growth Factors, Growth Factors/Hormones, Lineage Markers, Lineage Specification, Metabolism, Organogenesis, Signal Transduction, Stem Cells, Transcription

Activates insulin, somatostatin, glucokinase, islet amyloid polypeptide and glucose transporter type 2 gene transcription. Particularly involved in glucose-dependent regulation of insulin gene transcription. As part of a PDX1:PBX1b:MEIS2b complex in pancreatic acinar cells is involved in the transcriptional activation of the ELA1 enhancer; the complex binds to the enhancer B element and cooperates with the transcription factor 1 complex (PTF1) bound to the enhancer A element. Binds preferentially the DNA motif 5'-[CT]TAAT[TG]-3'. During development, specifies the early pancreatic epithelium, permitting its proliferation, branching and subsequent differentiation. At adult stage, required for maintaining the hormone-producing phenotype of the beta-cell.