Background: HOX genes play a fundamental role in the development of the vertebrate central nervous system, heart, axial skeleton, limbs, gut, urogenital tract and external genitalia. The homeobox gene Hoxb-1 is critical to hindbrain development and has phenotypic features frequently observed in autism. Analysis of expression and targeted disruption of Hoxb-1 demonstrates that it is also essential for patterning progenitor cells along the entire DV axis of rhombomere 4 (r4). Hoxb-1 maintains this function by acting very early during hindbrain neurogenesis to specify effectors of the sonic hedgehog and Mash1 signaling pathways. Hoxb2 is a homeodomain protein important in neural development that is also expressed during erythropoiesis, hindbrain development and normal human adult lung development. Hoxb2 may modulate the amount of gamma-globin mRNA expressed during development and differentiation. In addition, Hoxb2 plays an important role in the patterning of hindbrain and pharyngeal arches in the zebrafish.
Description: Rabbit polyclonal to HOXB2
Immunogen: KLH conjugated synthetic peptide derived from HOXB2
Specificity: ·Reacts with Human, Mouse, Pig, Dog and Rat.
·Isotype: IgG
Application: ·Western blotting: 1/100-500. Predicted Mol wt: 38 kDa;
·Immunohistochemistry (Paraffin/frozen tissue section): 1/50-200;
·Immunocytochemistry/Immunofluorescence: 1/100;
·Immunoprecipitation: 1/50;
·ELISA: 1/500;
·Optimal working dilutions must be determined by the end user.
