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Designing an IHC experiment for ALKBH2? 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 ALKBH2 IHC GuideFacts about DNA oxidative demethylase ALKBH2.
Has strong taste for double- stranded DNA. Has low efficiency with single-stranded substrates.
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | ALKBH2 |
| Uniprot: | Q6NS38 |
| Entrez: | 121642 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| alkB family |

2OG-Fe(II) oxy DC1; ABH2FLJ99103; alkB, alkylation repair homolog 2 (E. coli); Alkylated DNA repair protein alkB homolog 2; alpha-ketoglutarate-dependent dioxygenase alkB homolog 2; EC 1.14.11.-; MGC90512; Oxy DC1
Mass (kDA):
29.322 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 12q24.11 |
| Sequence: | 12; NC_000012.12 (109088188..109093631, complement) |
Detected in colon, small intestine, ovary, testis, prostate, skeletal muscle, heart, liver and urinary bladder.
Nucleus. Detected in replication foci during S-phase.




PMID: 17979886 by Tsujikawa K., et al. Expression and sub-cellular localization of human ABH family molecules.
PMID: 12486230 by Duncan T., et al. Reversal of DNA alkylation damage by two human dioxygenases.