IL-2 Monoclonal Antibody (MQ1-17H12), Alexa Fluor™ 532, eBioscience™, Invitrogen™

Description

• Description: The MQ1-17H12 antibody reacts with human interleukin-2 (IL-2), a 17 kDa T cell growth factor and a major immunoregulatory cytokine
• The MQ1-17H12 antibody is a non-neutralizing antibody
• Applications Reported: This MQ1-17H12 antibody has been reported for use in flow cytometric analysis
• Applications Tested: This MQ1-17H12 antibody has been pre-diluted and tested by flow cytometric analysis of activated normal human peripheral blood cells
• This may be used at 5 μL (0.25 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
• Alexa Fluor 532 is excited with the Green laser (532 nm) and emits at 561 nm
• This cannot be used with the Yellow-Green laser (561 nm)
• We recommend using a 560/14 band pass filter
• Please make sure that your instrument is capable of detecting this fluorochrome
• Excitation: 532 nm; Emission: 561 nm; Laser: Green Laser Interleukin 2 (IL-2) is an immuno-modulatory cytokine that is important for the proliferation of activated T cells, differentiation of B cells, natural killer cells, monocytes and macrophages
• IL-2 signals through the IL-2 receptor (IL-2R), a heterotrimeric protein complex whose gamma chain is also shared by interleukin 4 (IL-4) and interleukin 7 (IL-7)
• The expression of the IL-2 gene in mature thymocytes is monoallelic, which represents an unusual regulatory mode for controlling the precise expression of a single gene
• The targeted disruption of a gene similar to IL-2 in mice leads to an μgcerative colitis-like disease that suggests an essential role of this gene in the immune response to antigenic stimuli.