Ki67/MKI67 Products

Description

Ki67 is a nuclear protein associated with proliferation, named after its discovery in a Hodgkin's lymphoma-derived cell line by Scholzer and Gerdes at Kiel University, Germany (1). This proliferation marker is expressed during active phases of the cell cycle (late G1, S, G2 and M), whereas the protein remains undetectable in the G0 phase. Ki67 has two main isoforms with theoretical molecular weights of 319 kDa and 359 kDa. Its abundance is tightly regulated by synthesis and degradation with an estimated half-life of 60-90 min, regardless of its position in the cell cycle. Ki67 has been shown to be involved in ribosomal biogenesis, heterochromatin maintenance, and mitotic chromosome separation (2).

Detection of Ki67 by immunostaining is commonly used as a proliferation marker in solid tumors, as well as certain hematological malignancies (3-5). The Ki67 index, which reports on positive Ki67 stained tumor cell nuclei, has been extensively studied as a prognostic biomarker in cancers such as breast cancer and cervical cancer.

References

1. Gerdes J, Schwab U, Lemke H, Stein H. (1983) Production of a mouse monoclonal antibody reactive with a human nuclear antigen associated with cell proliferation. Int J Cancer. 31:13-20. PMID: 6339421

2. Starborg M, Gell K, Brundell E and Hoog C. (1996) The murine Ki-67 cell proliferation antigen accumulates in the nucleolar and heterochromatic regions of interphase cells and at the periphery of the mitotic chromosomes in a process essential for cell cycle progression. J Cell Sci. 109:143-153. 1996

3. Karamitopoulou E, Perentes E, Tolnay M, Probst A. (1998) Prognostic significance of MIB-1, p53, and bcl-2 immunoreactivity in meningiomas. Hum Pathol. 29(2):140-5. PMID: 9490273

4. Geyer FC, Rodrigues DN, Weigelt B and Reis-Filho JS. (2012) Molecular classification of estrogen receptor-positive/luminal breast cancers. Adv Anat Pathol. 19(1):39-53. PMID: 22156833

5. Ikenberg H, Bergeron C, Schmidt D, Griesser H, Alameda F, Angeloni C, Bogers J, Dachez R, Denton K, Hariri J, Keller T, von Knebel Doeberitz M, Neumann HH, Puig-Tintore LM, Sideri M, Rehm S, Ridder R; PALMS Study Group. (2013) Screening for cervical cancer precursors with p16/Ki-67 dual-stained cytology: results of the PALMS study. J Natl Cancer Inst. 105(20):1550-7. PMID: 24096620

Bioinformatics

Entrez	17345 Mouse 291234 Rat 4288 Human
Uniprot	NP_002408 Human P46013 Human Q61769 Mouse Q91VE6 Mouse
Product By Gene ID	4288
Alternate Names	antigen identified by monoclonal Ki-67 Antigen Ki67 antigen KI-67 Ki67 Ki-67 KIA Marker Of Proliferation Ki-67 MIB- MIB-1 PPP1R105 Proliferation Marker Protein Ki-67 proliferation-related Ki-67 antigen Protein Phosphatase 1 Regulatory Subunit 105

Research Areas for Ki67/MKI67

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