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Designing a Western blot for CASK? 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 CASK Western Blot GuideFacts about Peripheral plasma membrane protein CASK.
Binds to cell-surface proteins, including amyloid precursor protein, neurexins and syndecans. May mediate a link between the extracellular matrix and the actin cytoskeleton via its interaction with syndecan and with the actin/spectrin-binding protein 4.
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | CASK |
| Uniprot: | O14936 |
| Entrez: | 8573 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| MAGUK family |

calcium/calmodulin-dependent serine protein kinase (MAGUK family); calcium/calmodulin-dependent serine protein kinase membrane-associatedguanylate kinase; Calcium/calmodulin-dependent serine protein kinase; CAMGUK; CMG; EC 2.7.11; EC 2.7.11.1; FGS4CAGH39; FLJ22219; hCASK; LIN2FLJ31914; MICPCH; peripheral plasma membrane protein CASK; Protein lin-2 homolog; TNRC8; trinucleotide repeat containing 8
Mass (kDA):
105.123 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | Xp11.4 |
| Sequence: | X; NC_000023.11 (41514934..41923554, complement) |
Ubiquitous. Expression is significantly greater in brain relative to kidney, lung, and liver and in fetal brain and kidney relative to lung and liver.
Nucleus. Cytoplasm. Cell membrane; Peripheral membrane protein.






PMID: 9660868 by Cohen A.R., et al. Human CASK/LIN-2 binds syndecan-2 and protein 4.1 and localizes to the basolateral membrane of epithelial cells.
PMID: 11003712 by Stevenson D., et al. Mapping and expression analysis of the human CASK gene.