This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website.
- Table of Contents
Designing a Western blot for Presenilin-2? The guide has the expected band size, antibodies backed by real blot images, the controls to run alongside, and protocols taken from published papers.
Open the PSEN2 Western Blot GuideFacts about Presenilin-2.
May play a role in intracellular signaling and gene expression or in linking chromatin to the nuclear membrane. May function in the cytoplasmic partitioning of proteins.
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | PSEN2 |
| Uniprot: | P49810 |
| Entrez: | 5664 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| peptidase A22A family |

AD3LP; AD4AD3L; AD5; E5-1; EC 3.4.23; EC 3.4.23.-; presenilin 2 (Alzheimer disease 4); Presenilin2; Presenilin-2; PS-2; PS2CMD1V; PSEN2; PSNL2; STM2STM-2
Mass (kDA):
50.14 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 1q42.13 |
| Sequence: | 1; NC_000001.11 (226870572..226903829) |
Isoform 1 is seen in the placenta, skeletal muscle and heart while isoform 2 is seen in the heart, brain, placenta, liver, skeletal muscle and kidney.
Endoplasmic reticulum membrane; Multi-pass membrane protein. Golgi apparatus membrane; Multi-pass membrane protein.






PMID: 7638622 by Levy-Lahad E., et al. Candidate gene for the chromosome 1 familial Alzheimer's disease locus.
PMID: 7651536 by Rogaev E.I., et al. Familial Alzheimer's disease in kindreds with missense mutations in a gene on chromosome 1 related to the Alzheimer's disease type 3 gene.