Application

Monoclonal Anti-Caldesmon (Smooth) antibody produced in mouse is suitable for: immunohistochemistry at a dilution of 1:500 using methacarn-fixed, paraffin-embedded sections of human or animal tissue immunoprecipitation western blot at a dilution of 1:4,000 using human uterus extract

Applications in which this antibody has been used successfully, and the associated peer-reviewed papers, are given below.Immunohistochemistry (1 paper)Western Blotting (1 paper)

Biochem/physiol Actions

Monoclonal Anti-Caldesmon (Smooth) (mouse IgG1 isotype) reacts in immunoblotting assays with caldesmon polypeptide of 150 kDa (h-Caldesmon).

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Immunogen

human uterus smooth muscle extract.

Specificity

The antibody (also cited as h-CD) reacts in immunoblotting assays with caldesmon polypeptide of 150 kDa (h-caldesmon). It does not cross-react with skeletal or cardiac muscle or with the 70 kDa non-muscle caldesmon. In immunohistochemical staining, the antibody exhibits smooth muscle specificity. It stains vascular and visceral smooth muscle cells but not epithelial, endothelial or connective tissue fibroblast cells. In normal and malignant breast tissue, the myoepithelial component of galactophorous sinuses (but not in ducts of lobules) is stained; however, the antibody may be non-reactive by immunocytochemical methods with cultured smooth muscle cells. This probably reflects the down regulation of caldesmon commonly observed in tissue culture.