General Notes
Mouse anti Human CD163 antibody, clone EDHu-1 recognizes the human CD163 cell surface antigen, a 130-140 kDa glycoprotein expressed by tissue macrophages. CD163 expression may be induced on monocytes by culture in dexamethasone.Clone EDHu-1 is reported to inhibit the binding of haptoglobin/hemoglobin to CD163 (Madsen et al. 2004).Truncation mutation analysis demonstrates binding of EDHu-1 occurs via the N-terminal region of CD163 containing the first three scavenger receptor, Cysteine-rich, SRCR domains the third domain being critical as, cleavage of this domain at the major cleavage site ASP-265 abrogates binding to the N-terminal fragment.