Uses
Monoclonal Anti-Nanog antibody is suitable for use in ELISA, immunoblotting (~ 40 kDa), immunocytochemistry and immunoprecipitation.
Immunoblotting: a working antibody concentration of 2-4 mg/mL is recommended using extracts of NT2 cells.
General Description
Nanog is a homeodomain transcription factor expressed in cells of the inner cell mass of early embryos, in embryonic stem cells (ESC), germ cells and in stem/progenitor cells of some tissues. Together with Oct-4, Sox-2, and Rex-1, it is a molecular marker for pluripotent cells and for undifferentiated stem cells. This protein is crucial for the maintenance of pluripotency of ESCs and is down-regulated when ESCs differentiate.
Nanog controls the expression of many ESC genes together with other stem cell transcription factors like Oct-4 and Sox-2. Nanog targets both repressor and activator complexes to regulatory regions of hundreds of genes in the genome. Expression of nanog can be detected primarily in germ cell tumors and in tumors of other cell types. Nanog is an important marker for Seminomas, testicular carcinomas, teratocarcinomas, and germ cell-like tumors in various tissues. Furthermore, it was shown to transform NIH3T3 cells.
