A portion of amino acids 92-121 from the human protein was used as the immunogen for this Prohibitin antibody.
Prohibitin is an evolutionarily conserved protein that is ubiquitously expressed. It is thought to be a negative regulator of cell proliferation and may be a tumor suppressor. Mutations have been linked to sporadic breast cancer. Prohibitin is expressed as two transcripts with varying lengths of 3 untranslated region.