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Designing a Western blot for Bile salt export pump? 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 ABCB11 Western Blot GuideFacts about Bile salt export pump.
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | ABCB11 |
| Uniprot: | O95342 |
| Entrez: | 8647 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| ABC transporter superfamily |

ABC member 16, MDR/TAP subfamily; ABC16; ATP-binding cassette sub-family B member 11; ATP-binding cassette, sub-family B (MDR/TAP), member 11; bile salt export pump; BSEP; BSEPPFIC2; EC 3.6.3; EC 3.6.3.44; PFIC-2; PGY4; progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis 2; sister p-glycoprotein; SPGPBRIC2
Mass (kDA):
146.407 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 2q31.1 |
| Sequence: | 2; NC_000002.12 (168915468..169031396, complement) |
Expressed predominantly, if not exclusively in the liver, where it was further localized to the canalicular microvilli and to subcanalicular vesicles of the hepatocytes by in situ.
Membrane; Multi-pass membrane protein.




PMID: 9806540 by Strautnieks S.S., et al. A gene encoding a liver-specific ABC transporter is mutated in progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis.
PMID: 16332456 by Hayashi H., et al. Transport by vesicles of glycine- and taurine-conjugated bile salts and taurolithocholate 3-sulfate: a comparison of human BSEP with rat Bsep.
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