A portion of amino acids 9-40 from the human protein was used as the immunogen for this cKit antibody.
c-Kit is a Tyrosine-protein kinase that acts as cell-surface receptor for the cytokine KITLG/SCF and plays an essential role in the regulation of cell survival and proliferation, hematopoiesis, stem cell maintenance, gametogenesis, mast cell development, migration and function, and in melanogenesis. [UniProt]