GATA-4 (D3A3M) Rabbit mAb

GATA-4 (D3A3M) Rabbit mAb recognizes endogenous levels of total GATA-4 protein.

Mouse, Rat

Monoclonal antibody is produced by immunizing animals with a synthetic peptide corresponding to residues near the amino terminus of human GATA-4 protein.

GATA proteins comprise a group of transcription factors that are related by the presence of conserved zinc finger DNA binding domains, which bind directly to the nucleotide sequence core element GATA (1-3). There are six vertebrate GATA proteins, designated GATA-1 to GATA-6 (3).
GATA-4 is crucial for cardiomyocyte differentiation (4), and not surprisingly, mutations in the GATA-4 gene are implicated in many cardiac diseases, such as tetralogy of Fallot (5), familial and sporadic dilated cardiomyopathy (6,7), and atrial septal defect (8). GATA-4 and GATA-6 together maintain intestinal epithelial structure by regulating enterocyte gene expression (9). They also have overlapping roles in steroidogenesis and genital ridge formation during gonadal development (10). GATA-4 is also a required factor for bone mineralization in osteoblast progenitor cells, where it suppresses TGF-β and activates BMP signaling (11). Research studies have uncovered crosstalk among the transcription factors GATA-4, GATA-6, and KLF5 that promotes gastric cancer development (12). Additional studies describe the role of histone H3K9 hyperacetylation on the GATA-4 promoter in fetal mice that have been exposed to ethanol (13).