Anti-NeuroD1 Antibody serum, from rabbit

NeuroD1 is a transcriptional activator that associates with p300 transcription co-activator protein to promote the expression of many important differentiation pathways, like those that promote the formation of early retinal ganglion cells, inner ear sensory neurons, granule cells forming either the cerebellum or the dentate gyrus cell layer of the hippocampus, endocrine islet cells of the pancreas and enteroendocrine cells of the small intestine. NeuroD1 is required for amacrine cell fate as well as dendrite morphogenesis and the maintenance of cerebellar cortex. Also via its associate with chromatin, NeuroD1 helps regulate the expression of many other key transcriptional regulators of neurogenesis as well. NeuroD1 is expressed in developing brain and pancreas as well as in differentiating neurons in both the CNS and PNS systems. Disruption of NeuroD1 leads to early death in mice with several developmental and functional defects throughout the body pointing to this factors key role in development in many systems.