RAIG1 Antibody recognizes endogenous levels of total RAIG1 protein.
Source / Purification
Polyclonal antibodies are produced by immunizing animals with a synthetic peptide corresponding to residues surrounding Val295 of human RAIG1 protein. Antibodies are purified by protein A and peptide affinity chromatography.
Background
Retinoic Acid-Induced Gene 1 (RAIG1), also called RAI3 and GPRC5A, belongs to the family of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). GPCRs are the largest and most abundant receptor family in mammals, composed of more than one thousand members (1). Retinoic Acids (RA) are a group of pleiotropic signaling molecules that regulate a broad range of physiologic and developmental processes. It is thought that RAIG1 may be a downstream target of RA signaling (2). RAIG1 is expressed in lung tissue and in several lung cancer cell lines, and encodes a seven-transmembrane glycoprotein presumed to be a lung tumor suppressor gene (3,4).