Background:  Maturation of cytotoxic T lymphocytes is mediated in part by a structure on the T cell surface known as the T cell antigen receptor (TCR) complex. The pre-TCR complex consists of pre-TCR α, pre-TCR βand CD3, which together help coordinate early thymocyte development. Pre-TCR α chain is a type I transmembrane glycoprotein with an extracellular region similar to the constant domain of the immunoglobulin supergene family. Notch3 transgenic mice lacking pre-TCR α inhibits tumor development. In humans, acute lymphoblastic leukemias (ALL) in remission have lower transcript levels of Notch3, HES-1 and pre-TCR α transcripts a and b relative to proliferating ALLs. The human pre-TCR α gene is expressed in immature T cells and maps to chromosome 6p21.3.

Description: Rabbit polyclonal to TCR alpha

Immunogen: KLH conjugated synthetic peptide derived from TCR alpha

Specificity:  ·Reacts with Human, Mouse and Rat.

·Isotype: IgG

Application:  ·Western blotting: 1/100-500. Predicted Mol wt: 16 kDa;

·Immunohistochemistry (Paraffin/frozen tissue section): 1/50-200;

·Immunocytochemistry/Immunofluorescence: 1/100;

·Immunoprecipitation: 1/50;

·ELISA: 1/500;

·Optimal working dilutions must be determined by the end user.