About CD14
The protein encoded by this gene is a surface antigen that is preferentially expressed on monocytes/macrophages. It cooperates with other proteins to mediate the innate immune response to bacterial lipopolysaccharide, and to viruses. This gene has been identified as a target candidate in the treatment of SARS-CoV-2-infected patients to potentially lessen or inhibit a severe inflammatory response. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants encoding the same protein. [provided by RefSeq, Aug 2020]

About APC-Fire 810
APC-Fire™ 810 from BioLegend has an excitation peak at 650nm and an emission peak at 807 nm and is spectrally similar to APC-CF®790. APC-Fire™ 810 is most commonly used in flow cytometry. On a 5-laser Cytek® Aurora, it has very limited spectral spillover into any other channel, so it can be assigned to any antigen with moderate to abundant expression and used in combination with any other fluorophore. This dye is very useful for detecting variably expressed markers, like markers of activation, since it emits so far outside of the autofluorescence range.