A synthetic peptide for use as a blocking control in assays to test for specificity of FAS antibody, Alternative Names: FAS control peptide, FAS antibody Blocking Peptide, Anti-FAS Blocking Peptide, Fas, TNF receptor superfamily, member 6 Blocking Peptide, ALPS1A Blocking Peptide, APO-1 Blocking Peptide, APT1 Blocking Peptide, CD95 Blocking Peptide, FAS1 Blocking Peptide, FASTM Blocking Peptide, TNFRSF6 Blocking Peptide
FAS is a member of the TNF-receptor superfamily. This receptor contains a death domain. It has been shown to play a central role in the physiological regulation of programmed cell death, and has been implicated in the pathogenesis of various malignancies and diseases of the immune system. The interaction of this receptor with its ligand allows the formation of a death-inducing signaling complex that includes Fas-associated death domain protein (FADD), caspase 8, and caspase 10. The autoproteolytic processing of the caspases in the complex triggers a downstream caspase cascade, and leads to apoptosis. This receptor has been also shown to activate NF-kappaB, MAPK3/ERK1, and MAPK8/JNK, and is found to be involved in transducing the proliferating signals in normal diploid fibroblast and T cells. At least eight alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding seven distinct isoforms have been described.