General Notes
Mouse anti Human CD14 antibody, clone MEM-18 recognizes human CD14, also known as Myeloid cell-specific leucine-rich glycoprotein. CD14 is a 375 amino acid ~55 kDa GPI-anchored cell membrane protein found predominantly on monocytes and macrophages, it is less strongly expressed on granulocytes, and is absent from stem cells and myeloid cells of very early differentiation states. In immunohistology CD14 present on Langerhans cells, follicular dendritic cells, histocytes and high endothelial venules. In ELISA clone MEM-18 recognizes the soluble form CD14 and has been used successfully in the develpopment of a sensitive ELISA as a capture reagent in conjunction with biotinylated Mouse anti CD14 antibody, clone UCHM1 as a detection reagentMouse anti Human CD14 antibody, clone MEM-18 is reported to block the binding of bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) to monocytes (Prager et al. 2001) and has been used successfully for the detection of soluble CD14 in saliva samples (Bergandi et al. 2007).