Description
Background
Hepatocyte Growth Factor (HGF) is structurally similar, but not identical to scatter factor, a molecule shown to stimulate the dissociation and scattering of epithelial cells. It mapped to 7q21.1 and involved in liver regeneration. Human HGF has been purified approximately 209,000-fold with 18% yield from plasma of a patient with fulminant hepatic failure. It consists of 2 chains, heavy and light with molecular weights of 54,000-65,000 and 31,500-34,500, respectively.1 HGF is a potent mitogen, morphogen and motogen to both endothelial and epithelial cell types and is linked to a tyrosine kinase, proto-oncogene, c-met receptor. It indicated that HGF may serve as a paracrine mediator to control placental development and growth.2
Data Sheet
| Form | lyophilized |
| Ig type | rabbit IgG |
| Immunogen/Antigen | A synthetic peptide corresponding to a sequence at the N-terminal of |
| Reconstitution | 0.2ml of distilled water will yield a concentration of 500μg/ml. |
| Size | 100ug/vial |
| Storage | At -20C for one year. After reconstitution, at 4C for one month. |
