General Notes
Rat anti Human CD49f antibody, clone NKI-GoH3 recognizes CD49f, also known as the VLA-6 alpha chain. CD49f is a 1107 amino acid ~120 kDa cell surface glycoprotein that forms distinct complexes with CD29 (VLA beta-chain), resulting in the VLA-6 (alpha-6 beta-1) complex, expressed on human platelets, or with the beta-4 integrin resulting in the alpha-6 beta-4 complex expressed on various human epithelial cells.Rat anti Human CD49f antibody, clone NKI-GoH3 reacts with platelets, megakaryocytes, T lymphocytes and common acute lymphoblastic leukemia cells (alpha-6 beta-1). In immunohistology the monoclonal antibody reacts with epithelial cells of a variety of tissues, peripheral nerves, microvascular endothelial cells, placenta cyto- and syncytotrophoblasts.VLA-6 is an important mediator of cell binding to laminin. Rat anti Human CD49f antibody, clone NKI-GoH3 blocks the binding of cells to the E8 fragment of laminin (Sonnenberg et al. 1998).