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Designing a Western blot for AP2A2? 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 AP2A2 Western Blot GuideDesigning an IHC experiment for AP2A2? 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 AP2A2 IHC GuideFacts about AP-2 complex subunit alpha-2.
Adaptor protein complexes are vesicle coat components and appear to be involved in cargo selection and vesicle formation. AP-2 is involved in clathrin-dependent endocytosis in which cargo proteins are incorporated into vesicles surrounded by clathrin (clathrin- coated vesicles, CCVs) which are destined for fusion with the early endosome.
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | AP2A2 |
| Uniprot: | O94973 |
| Entrez: | 161 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| adaptor complexes large subunit family |

100 kDa coated vesicle protein C; Adapter-related protein complex 2 alpha-2 subunit; adaptin, alpha B; Adaptor protein complex AP-2 subunit alpha-2; adaptor-related protein complex 2, alpha 2 subunit; alpha2-adaptin; Alpha-adaptin C; alpha-adaptin C; Huntingtin interacting protein J; AP-2 complex subunit alpha-2; Clathrin assembly protein complex 2 alpha-C large chain; clathrin-associated/assembly/adaptor protein, large, alpha 2; DKFZP564D1864; HIP9ADTAB; Huntingtin yeast partner J; Huntingtin-interacting protein 9; Huntingtin-interacting protein J; HYPJCLAPA2; KIAA0899HIP-9; Plasma membrane a
Mass (kDA):
103.96 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 11p15.5 |
| Sequence: | 11; NC_000011.10 (925809..1012245) |
Cell membrane; Peripheral membrane protein; Cytoplasmic side. Membrane, coated pit; Peripheral membrane protein; Cytoplasmic side. AP-2 appears to be excluded from internalizing CCVs and to disengage from sites of endocytosis seconds before internalization of the nascent CCV.





PMID: 9700202 by Faber P.W., et al. Huntingtin interacts with a family of WW domain proteins.
PMID: 11532990 by Waelter S., et al. The huntingtin interacting protein HIP1 is a clathrin and alpha- adaptin-binding protein involved in receptor-mediated endocytosis.