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Designing an IHC experiment for Cocaine esterase? 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 CES2 IHC GuideFacts about Cocaine esterase.
Hydrolyzes aspirin, substrates with big alcohol group and little acyl group and endogenous lipids like triacylglycerol (PubMed:28677105). .
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | CES2 |
| Uniprot: | O00748 |
| Entrez: | 8824 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| type-B carboxylesterase/lipase family |

carboxylesterase 2 (intestine, liver); Carboxylesterase 2; carboxylesterase 2EC 3.1.1.1; CE-2; CE-2PCE-2; CES2; CES2A1; EC 3.1.1; EC 3.1.1.84; hCE-2; iCE; intestinal carboxylesterase; liver carboxylesterase-2; PCE-2
Mass (kDA):
61.807 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 16q22.1 |
| Sequence: | 16; NC_000016.10 (66934471..66945096) |
Preferentially expressed in intestine with moderate expression in liver. Within the intestine, highest expression is found in small intestine with lower expression in colon and rectum.
Endoplasmic reticulum lumen.




PMID: 9144407 by Schwer H., et al. Molecular cloning and characterization of a novel putative carboxylesterase, present in human intestine and liver.
PMID: 9169443 by Pindel E.V., et al. Purification and cloning of a broad substrate specificity human liver carboxylesterase that catalyzes the hydrolysis of cocaine and heroin.