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Designing a Western blot for ASIC2? 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 ASIC2 Western Blot Guide1 Citations
Facts about Acid-sensing ion channel 2.
Generates a biphasic current with a fast inactivating and a slow sustained phase. Heteromeric channel assembly seems to modulate.
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | ASIC2 |
| Uniprot: | Q16515 |
| Entrez: | 40 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| amiloride-sensitive sodium channel (TC 1.A.6) family |

Acid-sensing ion channel 2; Amiloride-sensitive brain sodium channel; amiloride-sensitive cation channel 1, neuronal; ASIC2a; ASIC2Mammalian degenerin homolog; BNAC1; BNaC1ACCN; BNC1Amiloride-sensitive cation channel neuronal 1; degenerin; hBNaC1; MDEGBrain sodium channel 1; neuronal amiloride-sensitive cation channel 1
Mass (kDA):
57.709 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 17q11.2-q12 |
| Sequence: | 17; NC_000017.11 (33013087..34156806, complement) |
Brain and spinal cord. Isoform 1 is also detected in testis, liver, colon and ovary.
Cell membrane; Multi-pass membrane protein. Localized at the plasma membrane of neurons, in the soma and punctated peripheral processes.





PMID: 8626462 by Price M.P., et al. Cloning and expression of a novel human brain Na+ channel.
PMID: 8631835 by Waldmann R., et al. The mammalian degenerin MDEG, an amiloride-sensitive cation channel activated by mutations causing neurodegeneration in Caenorhabditis elegans.