AffiAB® Anti-PAX8 Antibody [JE80-01]

PAX8 is a transcription factor crucial to the organogenesis and development of the thyroid gland, urogenital tract, placenta and inner ear. In the thyroid, PAX8 is a master gene that regulates maintenance of the differentiated thyroid follicular cell phenotype, where it controls and activates the transcription of the main proteins responsible for the functional activity of follicular cells such as thyroglobulin, thyroperoxidase and sodium/iodide symporter. In the developing kidney PAX8 is important for renal vescicle formation. PAX8 regulates the expression of the WT1 gene. PAX8 appears to be currently the most sensitive and specific marker for renal cell carcinoma and ovarian non-mucinous carcinoma. Nuclear transcriptional regulator in the paired-box family expressed during organogenesis of the thyroid gland, kidney, and Müllerian tract. Chromosomal localization 2q13, Molecular weight of the unprocessed precursor 48 kDa, of five isoforms 31-42 kDa.