• Species Reactivity

  Human, Mouse

• Specificity

  Stains human and mouse Slit2 transfectants but not irrelevant transfectants in flow cytometry.

• Source

  Monoclonal Rat IgG2b Clone # 710305

• Immunogen

  Chinese hamster ovary cell line CHO-derived recombinant mouse Slit2    
  Gln26-Gln900    
  Accession # Q9R1B9

• Formulation

  Supplied 0.2 mg/mL in a saline solution containing BSA and Sodium Azide.

• Label

  Alexa Fluor 700

Applications

• Recommended    
  Concentration

  Sample

• Flow Cytometry

  0.25-1 μg/10    ⁶ cells

  CHO Chinese hamster ovary cell line transfected with human or mouse Slit2

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Please Note: Optimal dilutions should be determined by each laboratory for each application.  are available in the Technical Information section on our website.

Preparation and Storage

• Shipping

  The product is shipped with polar packs. Upon receipt, store it immediately at the temperature recommended below.

• Stability & Storage

  Store the unopened product at 2 - 8 °C. Do not use past expiration date.

Background: Slit2

Slit2 is a 180-210 kDa secreted member of the SLIT family of proteins. It is expressed in select sites in the embryo (via glia, motoneurons and posterior sclerotome mesoderm), and found in discrete adult cell types such as preosteoblasts, monocytes, granulose lutein cells, and likely keratinocytes. Slit2 binds to multiple receptors, including ROBO-1 thru -4, Laminin-1, Dan, Gremlin and Netrin-1. Depending upon the target, Slit2 can promote a number of diverse effects, including both growth cone collapse and outgrowth, inhibition of dendritic cell migration, and axon repulsion. Mature mouse Slit2 is 1496 amino acids (aa) in length (aa 26-1521). It contains multiple intermingled domains, including nine EGF-like domains, 20 Leu-rich repeats (LRRs), one laminin G-like and CTCK (C-terminal Cys knot-like) domain, and eight total C- plus N-terminal LRRs. There are two potential isoform splice variants. One contains a four aa insertion after Ser258, while another possesses the same insertion after Ser258 coupled to both an eight aa insertion after Ser479 and a nine aa insertion after Thr1021. Slit2 apparently undergoes proteolytic cleavage after Arg1113. This generates a 140-150 kDa N-terminal protein, and a 55-60 kDa C-terminal fragment. This processing does not inactivate Slit2. Rather, it creates molecules with distinct activities. For example, the N-terminal fragment will bind ROBO1 and repel motor axon migration, while the C-terminal fragment won't bind ROBO1, but will bind glypican-1 and promote motor axon migration. Over aa 26-900, mouse Slit2 shares 99% and 97% aa sequence identity with rat and human Slit2, respectively.

• Long Name:

  SLIT Homolog 2

• Entrez Gene IDs:

  9353 (Human); 20563 (Mouse); 360272 (Rat)

• Alternate Names:

  FLJ14420; SLIL3; slit (Drosophila) homolog 2; slit homolog 2 (Drosophila); slit homolog 2 protein; Slit2; Slit-2SLIL3