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Designing a Western blot for AP-2 complex subunit mu? 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 AP2M1 Western Blot GuideFacts about AP-2 complex subunit mu.
Adaptor protein complexes are vesicle coat components and appear to be involved in cargo selection and vesicle formation. AP-2 is included in clathrin-dependent endocytosis where cargo proteins are incorporated into vesicles surrounded by clathrin (clathrin- coated vesicles, CCVs) that are destined for fusion with the early endosome.
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | AP2M1 |
| Uniprot: | Q96CW1 |
| Entrez: | 1173 |

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

Adaptin-mu2; adaptor-related protein complex 2, mu 1 subunit; AP-2 mu chain; Clathrin assembly protein complex 2 medium chain; clathrin coat adaptor protein AP50; Clathrin coat assembly protein AP50; Clathrin coat-associated protein AP50; clathrin-associated/assembly/adaptor protein, medium 1; HA2 50 kDa subunit; KIAA0109; mu subunit; Plasma membrane adaptor AP-2 50 kDa protein; plasma membrane adaptor AP-2 50kDA protein
Mass (kDA):
49.655 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 3q27.1 |
| Sequence: | 3; NC_000003.12 (184174846..184184091) |
Cell membrane. 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: 12032142 by Geyer M., et al. Subunit H of the V-ATPase binds to the medium chain of adaptor protein complex 2 and connects Nef to the endocytic machinery.
PMID: 14745134 by Nakatsu F., et al. Adaptor protein complexes as the key regulators of protein sorting in the post-Golgi network.