UROP11 Antibody

Upregulated obese product 11 (UROP11) was isolated from subtractive library for mouse hypothalamus. It is detected in numerous tissues and is upregulated in the hypothalamus and adipocytes in obese mice. UROP11 is also observed in human neural and lymphoid tissues; its expression appears to be regulated by the level of lymphoid activation. Urop11 expression is strongly upregulated both in vivo in mouse hypothalamus and in vitro in mouse neural cell lines after treatment with leptin, indicating Urop11 is a target of leptin activity and thus may play a role in obesity. Despite its predicted molecular weight, UROP11 often migrates at a much higher apparent size in SDS-PAGE.