Introduction
Among the numerous genes in the genome, there are 20%-30% gene encodes the membrane protein. These membrane proteins are involved in almost every intracellular activities in life, including ligand-receptor binding, signal transduction, molecular transport, intercellular recognition and enzyme catalysis. Since the membrane proteins participate in such a large number of physiological activities, it's an important target for drug development and clinical research. As an important reagent in experimental research, the antibodies which against these membrane proteins are essential, however, there are many problems by using traditional methods to prepare these antibodies, including the low expression rate, hard extraction and purification, heterologous gene encoding, mis-folding, incomplete post-translational processing and conformational differences, etc.
Leading Biology has established custom membrane
protein and membrane protein antibody production platforms for antibody
discovery.
Membrane proteins, actually, are a kind
of proteins acting as ion channels, receptors and transporters, which enable
the cells to transport e...