Fibulin 5 (FBLN5) Antibody

Fibulin 5 (FBLN5), with 448-amino acid protein (about 50kDa), is a recently discovered multifunctional extracellular matrix protein that mediates endothelial cell adhesion through integrin ligation, regulates cell growth and motility in a context-specific manner, and prevents elastinopathy in vivo.Fibulin-5 is abundantly expressed in great vessels and cardiac valves during embryogenesis, and in many adult tissues including the aorta, lung, uterus and skin, all of which contain abundant elastic fibres.Decreased fibulin-5 may contribute to the pathogenesis of aortic dissection by impairing elastic fiber assembly.Fibulin-5 is also a good marker of skin ageing and that the earlier loss of fibulin-5 may involve age-dependent changes in other elastic fibre components.

Unpurified ascites.

Q9UBX5

FBLN5

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