HMGA2 Antibody detects endogenous levels of total HMGA2 protein.
Source / Purification
Polyclonal antibodies are produced by immunizing animals with a synthetic peptide corresponding to residues near the amino-terminus of human HMGA2 protein. Antibodies are purified by protein A and peptide affinity chromatography.
Background
HMGA2 belongs to the family of high mobility group with AT-hook DNA binding domain. HMGA proteins are considered architectural transcription factors; they do not have direct transcriptional activation capacity, but instead regulate gene expression by changing DNA conformation through binding to AT-rich regions in the DNA, and/or direct interaction with other transcription factors (1,2). HMGA2 is abundantly and ubiquitously expressed and plays a crucial role during embryonic development (3). HMGA2 promotes stem cell self-renewal and decreases in its expression are associated with stem cell aging (4-7). Expression levels of HMGA2 are very low in normal adult tissues, but its overexpression or rearrangement is associated with many types of cancer (8-11).