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Antibody is stable for 24 months.
Positive Control: Human placenta, lymph node or spleen. JEG3 or A549 cell lysates. Cellular Localization: Secreted. Basement membrane.
Specificity Comments: SPARC (for secreted protein acidic and rich in cysteine) is a phosphorylated, acidic, glycine-rich glycoprotein that is secreted by endothelial cells and is present in large amounts in the parietal endoderm of mouse embryos and in human placenta. It is identical to osteonectin, a protein important to bone calcification that is highly conserved between species. SPARC, which can be selectively expressed by the endothelium in response to certain types of injury, induces rounding in adherent endothelial cells in vitro. It regulates endothelial barrier function through F-Actin-dependent changes in cell shape, coincident with the appearance of intercellular gaps, which provide a paracellular pathway for extravasation of macromolecules.
SPARC gene encodes a cysteine-rich acidic matrix-associated protein. The encoded protein is required for the collagen in bone to become calcified but is also involved in extracellular matrix synthesis and promotion of changes to cell shape. The gene product has been associated with tumor suppression but has also been correlated with metastasis based on changes to cell shape which can promote tumor cell invasion. Three transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene.
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Protein Aliases: Basement membrane protein 40; Basement-membrane protein 40; BM-40; BM40; Cysteine rich protein; ON; Osteonectin; Secreted acidic cystein rich glycoprotein; Secreted protein acidic and rich in cysteine; Secreted protein acidic and rich in cysteine (SPARC); secreted protein, acidic, cysteine-rich (osteonectin); SPARC
Gene Aliases: BM-40; OI17; ON; SPARC
UniProt ID: (Human) P09486
Entrez Gene ID: (Human) 6678
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