Form
Liquid
Buffer
PBS
Preservative
No preservative
Storage
Store as concentrated solution. Centrifuge briefly prior to opening vial. For short-term storage (1-2 weeks), store at 4ºC. For long-term storage, aliquot and store at -20ºC or below. Avoid multiple freeze-thaw cycles.
Concentration
Batch dependent (Please refer to the vial label for the specific concentration.)
Antigen Species
Human
Immunogen
Produced from sera of rabbits pre-immunized with highly pure (>98%) recombinant hTGF-alpha (human Transforming Growth Factor-alpha).
Purification
Purified by antigen-affinity chromatography
Conjugation
Unconjugated
Note
For laboratory research use only. Not for any clinical, therapeutic, or diagnostic use in humans or animals. Not for animal or human consumption.
Purchasers shall not, and agree not to enable third parties to, analyze, copy, reverse engineer or otherwise attempt to determine the structure or sequence of the product.
Synonyms
transforming growth factor alpha , TFGA
Background
Transforming Growth Factor-alpha (TGFa), originally discovered in 1978 in conditioned medium of retrovirus-transformed fibroblasts (ref 1), is a protein that reversibly confers a transformed phenotype upon normal non-neoplastic cells, such as normal rat kidney (NRK) fibroblasts (ref 2). The transforming activity of TGFa was later shown to require the presence of Transforming Growth Factor-beta, which potentiates the action of TGFa via a separate receptor (ref 2-4).
Database
Research Area