• Product name

  Native Rat Hemopexin protein
  See all Hemopexin proteins and peptides

• Purity

  > 95 % SDS-PAGE.
  
  

• Expression system

  Native

• Accession

  P20059

• Protein length

  Full length protein

• Animal free

  No

• Nature

  Native

• • Species

    Rat

  • Additional sequence information

    Prepared from rat serum.

• Alternative names

  • Beta 1B glycoprotein
  • Beta-1B-glycoprotein
  • FLJ56652

  • HEMO
  • HEMO_HUMAN
  • Hemopexin
  • Hpx
  • HX

  see all

• Function

  Binds heme and transports it to the liver for breakdown and iron recovery, after which the free hemopexin returns to the circulation.

• Tissue specificity

  Expressed by the liver and secreted in plasma.

• Sequence similarities

  Belongs to the hemopexin family.
  Contains 5 hemopexin-like domains.

• Post-translational
  modifications

  N- and O-glycosylated. O-glycosylated with core 1 or possibly core 8 glycans.

• Cellular localization

  Secreted.

• Target information above from: UniProt accession P02790 The UniProt Consortium
  The Universal Protein Resource (UniProt) in 2010
  Nucleic Acids Res. 38:D142-D148 (2010) .

  Information by UniProt