SSEA4 Monoclonal Antibody (eBioMC-813-70 (MC-813-70)), Biotin, eBioscience™, Invitrogen™

Description

• Description: The eBioMC-813-70 monoclonal antibody reacts with a glycolipid carbohydrate epitope on Stage-specific embryonic antigen-4 (SSEA-4) protein
• Expression is found on human teratocarcinoma stem cells (EC), human embryonic germ cells (EG), human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, and human embryonic stem cells (ES) with a decrease in expression upon differentiation
• Recently expression has also been found on bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells
• The eBioMC-813-70 antibody has been reported to crossreact to mouse, rabbit, canine, chicken, and Old and New World monkeys
• Applications Reported: This eBioMC-813-70 (MC-813-70) antibody has been reported for use in flow cytometric analysis
• Applications Tested: This eBioMC-813-70 (MC-813-70) antibody has been tested by flow cytometric analysis of the 2102Ep cell line
• This can be used at less than or equal to 1 μg per test
• A test is defined as the amount (μg) of antibody that will stain a cell sample in a final volume of 100 μL
• Cell number should be determined empirically but can range from 10^5 to 10^8 cells/test
• It is recommended that the antibody be carefully titrated for optimal performance in the assay of interest
• Filtration: 0.2 μm post-manufacturing filtered
• SSEA-4 (Stage-specific embryonic antigen 4) is a cell surface antigen, expressed along with SSEA-3, TRA-1-60 and TRA-1-81 in embryonic stem cells, embryonal carcinoma cells and induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS)
• In human cells, these surface markers are down-regulated during the differentiation process, while SSEA-1 is absent in undifferentiated human stem cells and upregulated on the cell surface after retinoic acid mediated differentiation
• Conversely, in mouse stem cells, SSEA-1 expression decreases with differentiation while SSEA-3 and SSEA-4 expression increase.