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NKX2.1 (NK2 homeobox 1) is a homeobox transcription factor that plays a central role in embryonic development of the thyroid gland, lung, and ventral forebrain. NKX2.1 Antibody / Forebrain Thyroid Development Marker Antibody (clone NX2.1/1855R) recognizes this developmental transcription factor, which regulates gene expression programs guiding early tissue specification during embryogenesis. NKX2.1 is also widely known as Thyroid transcription factor 1 (TTF-1), and NKX2.1 antibody reagents are frequently used to investigate developmental lineage specification in thyroid and forebrain tissues.
During embryonic thyroid development, NKX2.1 functions as a key transcriptional regulator controlling formation of the thyroid primordium and early thyroid epithelial differentiation. Expression of NKX2.1 is detected in the developing thyroid anlage where it activates transcriptional networks required for thyroid organogenesis and establishment of thyroid follicular epithelial cell lineage identity. Because NKX2.1 expression appears during the earliest stages of thyroid gland formation, detection of NKX2.1 protein provides an effective marker for studying transcriptional mechanisms regulating thyroid developmental specification.
NKX2.1 also plays an important role in patterning of the ventral forebrain during embryogenesis. In the developing brain, NKX2.1 regulates transcriptional programs that guide neuronal differentiation and establish ventral forebrain regional identity. These developmental regulatory functions position NKX2.1 as an important molecular marker of early neurodevelopmental processes involved in forebrain morphogenesis. Detection of NKX2.1 protein therefore supports studies examining transcription factor activity controlling neuronal lineage specification within the ventral forebrain.
Because NKX2.1 participates in transcriptional networks directing formation of multiple organs, NKX2.1 antibody reagents are widely used to investigate developmental homeobox transcription factors that control embryonic tissue differentiation. Detection of NKX2.1 protein allows investigators to examine transcriptional regulation during early stages of thyroid gland development and forebrain formation.
As a result, NKX2.1 antibody tools provide a useful marker for studying thyroid organogenesis, ventral forebrain development, and molecular pathways controlling embryonic lineage specification during vertebrate development.
Optimal dilution of the rNKX2.1 Antibody / Forebrain Thyroid Development Marker Antibody should be determined by the researcher.
1. The prediluted format is supplied in a dropper bottle and is optimized for use in IHC. After epitope retrieval step (if required), drip mAb solution onto the tissue section and incubate at RT for 30 min.
Recombinant protein was used as the immunogen for the recombinant NKX2.1 antibody.
Store the NKX2.1 antibody at 2-8oC (with azide) or aliquot and store at -20oC or colder (without azide).
TTF-1 antibody, Thyroid transcription factor 1 antibody, NKX2.1 transcription factor antibody, Developmental homeobox transcription factor antibody
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