PTN Recombinant Rabbit Monoclonal Antibody [JE47-40] (HA722055)

UNIPROT #

P21246

PROTEIN NAME

PTN

SYNONYMS

HARP antibody;HB-GAM antibody;HBBM antibody;HBGAM antibody;HBGF-8 antibody;HBGF8 antibody;HBNF antibody;HBNF-1 antibody;HBNF1 antibody;heparin affin regulatory protein antibody;Heparin binding growth associated molecule antibody;Heparin binding growth factor 8 antibody;Heparin binding neurite outgrowth promoting factor 1 antibody;Heparin-binding brain mitogen antibody;Heparin-binding growth factor 8 antibody;Heparin-binding growth-associated molecule antibody;heparin-binding neurite outgrowth promoting factor antibody;Heparin-binding neurite outgrowth-promoting factor 1 antibody;NEGF1 antibody;Neurite growth promoting factor 1 antibody;Neurite outgrowth-promoting factor, heparin-binding antibody;OSF-1 antibody;OSF1 antibody;Osteoblast-specific factor 1 antibody;pleiotrophin (heparin binding growth factor 8, neurite growth-promoting factor 1) antibody;Pleiotrophin antibody;PTN antibody;PTN_HUMAN antibody

SUBCELLULAR LOCATION

Secreted.

FUNCTION

Pleiotrophin (PTN) also known as heparin-binding brain mitogen (HBBM) or heparin-binding growth factor 8 (HBGF-8) or neurite growth-promoting factor 1 (NEGF1) or heparin affinity regulatory peptide (HARP) or heparin binding growth associated molecule (HB-GAM) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PTN gene. Pleiotrophin is an 18-kDa growth factor that has a high affinity for heparin. It is structurally related to midkine and retinoic acid induced heparin-binding protein. Pleiotrophin was initially recognized as a neurite outgrowth-promoting factor present in rat brain around birth and as a mitogen toward fibroblasts isolated from bovine uterus tissue. Together with midkine these growth-factors constitute a family of (developmentally regulated) secreted heparin-binding proteins[8] now known as the neurite growth-promoting factor (NEGF) family. During embryonic and early postnatal development, pleiotrophin is expressed in the central and peripheral nervous system and also in several non-neural tissues, notably lung, kidney, gut and bone.[9] Pleiotrophin is also expressed by several tumor cells and is thought to be involved in tumor angiogenesis. In the adult central nervous system, pleiotrophin is expressed in an activity-dependent manner in the hippocampus where it can suppress long term potentiation induction. Pleiotrophin expression is low in other areas of the adult brain, but it can be induced by ischemic insults. or targeted neuronal damaged in the entorhinal cortex or in the substantia nigra pars compacta.