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Designing an IHC experiment for PDGFRB? The guide has the expected staining pattern, antigen retrieval and fixation, antibodies backed by real IHC images, the tissue controls to run alongside, and protocols taken from published papers.
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Facts about Platelet-derived growth factor receptor beta.
Plays a role in the migration of vascular smooth muscle cells and the formation of neointima at vascular injury websites. Required for normal development of the cardiovascular system.
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | PDGFRB |
| Uniprot: | P09619 |
| Entrez: | 5159 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| protein kinase superfamily |

beta-type platelet-derived growth factor receptor; CD140 antigen-like family member B; CD140b antigen; CD140b; EC 2.7.10; EC 2.7.10.1; JTK12; PDGF R beta; PDGFR; PDGFR1; PDGFRB; PDGF-R-beta; platelet-derived growth factor receptor, beta polypeptide
Mass (kDA):
123.968 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 5q32 |
| Sequence: | 5; NC_000005.10 (150113839..150155845, complement) |
Cell membrane; Single-pass type I membrane protein. Cytoplasmic vesicle. Lysosome lumen. After ligand binding, the autophosphorylated receptor is ubiquitinated and internalized, leading to its degradation.





PMID: 2835772 by Gronwald R.G.K., et al. Cloning and expression of a cDNA coding for the human platelet- derived growth factor receptor: evidence for more than one receptor class.
PMID: 2850496 by Claesson-Welsh L., et al. cDNA cloning and expression of a human platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) receptor specific for B-chain-containing PDGF molecules.
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