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Designing a Western blot for Aquaporin-9? 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 AQP9 Western Blot GuideFacts about Aquaporin-9.
Also permeable to urea and glycerol. .
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | AQP9 |
| Uniprot: | O43315 |
| Entrez: | 366 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| MIP/aquaporin (TC 1.A.8) family |

AQP-9; Aquaglyceroporin-9; aquaporin 9; aquaporin-9; HsT17287; Small solute channel 1; SSC1aquaglyceroporin-9
Mass (kDA):
31.431 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 15q21.3 |
| Sequence: | 15; NC_000015.10 (58138169..58185911) |
Highly expressed in peripheral leukocytes. Also expressed in liver, lung, and spleen.
Cell membrane; Multi-pass membrane protein.




PMID: 9514918 by Ishibashi K., et al. Cloning and functional expression of a new aquaporin (AQP9) abundantly expressed in the peripheral leukocytes permeable to water and urea, but not to glycerol.
PMID: 10564231 by Tsukaguchi H., et al. Functional and molecular characterization of the human neutral solute channel aquaporin-9.