Clone: PARLAM 4
Background: This monoclonal antibody is reactive with Human carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), a tumour associated antigen with oncofetal characteristics. Although CEA can be found in tissues of non-neoplastic diseases and normal epithelia, it occurs also in a large variety of carcinomas. Therefore, immunohistochemical detection of CEA is frequently used for the histopathological diagnosis of Human tumours.
Source: PARLAM 4 is a mouse monoclonal IgG1 antibody derived by fusion of Sp 2/0 Ag 14 Mouse myeloma cells with spleen cells from a BABL/c Mouse immunized with isolated Human CEA. The immunogen has been isolated from Human colonic carcinoma cells.
Specificity: Most polyclonal CEA antisera show cross-reactivity with related antigens such as biliary glycoprotein (BGP) and non-specific cross-reacting antigen 1/11 (NCA). PARLAM 4 does not show cross reactivity, neither with BGP nor with NCA. In immunoblotting the antibody recognizes a single band of 180 kD.
References: 1. Verstijnen CP, Arends JW, Moerkerk PT, Warnaar S, Hilgers J, Bosman FT (1986). CEA-specificity of CEA-reactive monoclonal antibodies. Immuno-chemical and immunocytochemical studies. Anticancer Research, 6, 97-104. 2. Henzen-Logmans SC, Schipper NW, Poels LG, Stolk K, Kenemans P, Meyer CJ. (1988) Use of statistical evaluation of antigen profiles in differential diagnosis between colonic and ovarian adenocarcinomas. J.Clin Pathol. 41:644-9. 3. Taal BG, Hageman PC, Delemarre JF, Bonfrèr JM, den Hartog Jager FC. (1992) Metastatic ovarian or colonic cancer: a clinical challenge. Eur J Cancer . 28: 394-9.
UniProt: P06731
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