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Designing an IHC experiment for Adenylate cyclase type 3? 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.
Open the ADCY3 IHC GuideFacts about Adenylate cyclase type 3.
Required for the perception of odorants. Required for normal sperm motility and normal male fertility.
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | ADCY3 |
| Uniprot: | O60266 |
| Entrez: | 109 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| adenylyl cyclase class-4/guanylyl cyclase family |

AC3EC 4.6.1.1; AC-III; adenylate cyclase 3; adenylate cyclase type 3; Adenylate cyclase type III; Adenylyl cyclase 3; adenylyl cyclase, type III; ATP pyrophosphate-lyase 3; EC 4.6.1; KIAA0511; olfactive type
Mass (kDA):
128.96 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 2p23.3 |
| Sequence: | 2; NC_000002.12 (24819169..24920237, complement) |
Detected in zona glomerulosa and zona fasciculata in the adrenal gland (at protein level) (PubMed:11549699). Expressed in brain, heart, kidney, liver, lung, pancreas islets, placenta, and skeletal muscle (PubMed:9920776). Detected in testis (PubMed:15705663).
Cell membrane; Multi-pass membrane protein. Cytoplasm. Cell projection, cilium. Golgi apparatus. Also detected in the cytoplasm, close to lipid droplets.





PMID: 9920776 by Yang B., et al. Molecular cloning of a full-length cDNA for human type 3 adenylyl cyclase and its expression in human islets.
PMID: 8476432 by Hellevuo K., et al. A novel adenylyl cyclase sequence cloned from the human erythroleukemia cell line.