Specificity
Goat anti Human CD44v3-v10 antibody recognizes epitopes encoded by exons v3-v10 on the variant portion of human CD44. CD44 is a ubiquitously expressed type 1 transmembrane glycoprotein and proteoglycan, otherwise known as phagocytic glycoprotein 1 (pgp 1), acting as a receptor for the major extracellular matrix component hyaluronate, and also binds other ligands including collagen and matrix metalloproteinases (Miletti-González et al. 2012). CD44 plays a role in cell-cell interactions, cell adhesion, the activation and homing of lymphocytes, cell migration, haematopoiesis and metastasis, and exists as a number of isoforms generated by the alternative RNA splicing of at least 10 variant exons (Tanabe et al. 1993).
