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Designing an IHC experiment for CDKN2A? 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 CDKN2A IHC GuideFacts about Cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 2A.
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| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | CDKN2A |
| Uniprot: | P42771 |
| Entrez: | 1029 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| CDKN2 cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor family |

alternative reading frame; ARF; ARF-INK4a; CDK4I; CDKN2A; Cyclin-dependent kinase 4 inhibitor A; cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 2A (p16, inhibits CDK4); cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 2A; cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 2A, isoform 3; cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 2A, isoforms 1/2; cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor protein; INK4; INK4a; Ink4a/Arf; INK4a-ARF; mitochondrial smARF'; MTS1; p14; p14ARF; P16; p16(INK4a); p16-INK4; P16INK4A; p16-INK4a; P19; p19<ARF>; p19ARF; Pctr1
Mass (kDA):
16.533 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 9p21.3 |
| Sequence: | 9; NC_000009.12 (21967752..21995324, complement) |
Widely expressed but not detected in brain or skeletal muscle. Isoform 3 is pancreas-specific.
Cytoplasm. Nucleus.





PMID: 8259215 by Serrano M., et al. A new regulatory motif in cell-cycle control causing specific inhibition of cyclin D/CDK4.
PMID: 10445844 by Robertson K.D., et al. Tissue-specific alternative splicing in the human INK4a/ARF cell cycle regulatory locus.
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