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Key Product Details

Species Reactivity

Human

Applications

Flow Cytometry

Label

Alexa Fluor 647 (Excitation = 650 nm, Emission = 668 nm)

Antibody Source

Monoclonal Mouse IgM Clone # 691723

Product Specifications

Immunogen

Mouse myeloma cell line NS0-derived recombinant mouse N-Cadherin
Asp160-Ala724
Accession # P19022.4

Specificity

Detects mouse N-Cadherin in direct ELISAs and Western blots. In direct ELISAs approximately 50% cross-reactivity with recombinant mouse N-Cadherin is observed, and no cross-reactivity with recombinant human (rh) E-Cadherin, rhP-Cadherin, rhVE-Cadherin, rhCadherin-4, -8, -11, -12, or -13 is observed.

Clonality

Monoclonal

Host

Mouse

Isotype

IgM

Applications for Human N-Cadherin Alexa Fluor® 647-conjugated Antibody

Application
Recommended Usage

Flow Cytometry

0.25-1 µg/106 cells
Sample: HeLa human cervical epithelial carcinoma cell line
Please Note: Optimal dilutions of this antibody should be experimentally determined.

Formulation, Preparation, and Storage

Purification

Protein A or G purified from hybridoma culture supernatant

Formulation

Supplied 0.2 mg/mL in a saline solution containing BSA and Sodium Azide.

Shipping

The product is shipped with polar packs. Upon receipt, store it immediately at the temperature recommended below.

Stability & Storage

Store the unopened product at 2 - 8 °C. Do not use past expiration date.

Background: N-Cadherin

Neuronal Cadherin (N-Cadherin or NCAD), also known as Cadherin-2 (CDH2), is a 130 kDa type I membrane protein belonging to the Cadherin superfamily of calcium-dependent adhesion molecules. Cadherins are involved in multiple processes including embryonic development, cell migration, and maintenance of epithelial integrity (1, 2). Human N‑Cadherin is synthesized with a 25 amino acid (aa) signal peptide and a 134 aa N‑terminal propeptide. The mature cell surface‑expressed protein consists of a 565 amino acid (aa) extracellular domain (ECD) that contains five Cadherin repeats, a 21 aa transmembrane segment, and a 161 aa cytoplasmic domain (3). Within the ECD, human N-Cadherin shares 98% aa sequence identity with mouse and rat N-Cadherin. In the nervous system, N-Cadherin mediates adhesion between the opposing faces of developing neuronal synapses and between Schwann cells and neuronal axons (4, 5). It interacts in cis or in trans homophilically and with the GluR2 subunit of neuronal AMPA receptors (1, 6). During synaptic maturation, its expression is lost from inhibitory terminals but maintained at excitatory terminals (5). ADAM10-mediated shedding of the N-Cadherin ECD alters cell-cell adhesion, synaptic development, and AMPA receptor activity (7, 8). N-Cadherin can also be cleaved at multiple additional sites within the intracellular or extracellular domains by Calpain, gamma‑Secretase, and several MMPs (9 - 13). Cleavage of N‑Cadherin in atherosclerotic plaques contributes alternatively to vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation (MMP-9 and -12) or apoptosis (MMP‑7) (12, 13). Aberrant cell surface expression of the pro and mature forms of N-Cadherin in cancer results in increased tumor progression and invasiveness (14, 15). N-Cadherin also mediates the adhesion between hematopoeitic progenitor cells and mesenchymal stromal cells of the bone marrow (16).

References

  1. Pokutta, S. and W.I. Weis (2007) Annu. Rev. Cell Dev. Biol. 23:237.
  2. Gumbiner, B.M. (2005) Nat. Rev. Mol. Cell Biol. 6:622.
  3. Reid, R.A. and J.J. Hemperly (1990) Nucleic Acids Res. 18:5896.
  4. Wanner, I.B. and P.M. Wood (2002) J. Neurosci. 22:4066.
  5. Benson, D.L. and H. Tanaka (1998) J. Neurosci. 18:6892.
  6. Saglietti, L. et al. (2007) Neuron 54:461.
  7. Reiss, K. et al. (2005) EMBO J. 24:742.
  8. Malinverno, M. et al. (2010) J. Neurosci. 30:16343.
  9. Jang, Y.-N. et al. (2009) J. Neurosci. 29:5974.
  10. Uemura, K. et al. (2006) Neurosci. Lett. 402:278.
  11. Hartland, S.N. et al. (2009) Liver Int. 29:966.
  12. Williams, H. et al. (2010) Cardiovasc. Res. 87:137.
  13. Dwivedi, A. et al. (2009) Cardiovasc. Res. 81:178.
  14. Maret, D. et al. (2010) Neoplasia 12:1066.
  15. Tanaka, H. et al. (2010) Nat. Med. 16:1414.
  16. Wein, F. et al. (2010) Stem Cell Res. 4:129.

Long Name

Neural Cadherin

Alternate Names

Cadherin-2, CD325, CDH2, NCadherin

Entrez Gene IDs

1000 (Human); 12558 (Mouse); 83501 (Rat)

Gene Symbol

CDH2

UniProt

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