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Designing a Western blot for Cingulin? 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 CGN Western Blot GuideDesigning an IHC experiment for Cingulin? 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 CGN IHC GuideFacts about Cingulin.
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | CGN |
| Uniprot: | Q9P2M7 |
| Entrez: | 57530 |

| Belongs to: |
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| cingulin family |

cingulin; DKFZp779N1112; KIAA1319
Mass (kDA):
136.386 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 1q21.3 |
| Sequence: | 1; NC_000001.11 (151510858..151538692) |
Localized on the cytoplasmic face of tight junctions of polarized epithelia and some endothelia. Expressed in pancreas, kidney, liver and lung, but not in skeletal muscle, placenta, brain or heart.
Cell junction, tight junction. Localizes to the apical junction complex composed of tight and adherens junctions.





PMID: 11042084 by Citi S., et al. Human and Xenopus cingulin share a modular organization of the coiled-coil rod domain: predictions for intra- and intermolecular assembly.
PMID: 12023291 by D'Atri F., et al. Evidence for a functional interaction between cingulin and ZO-1 in cultured cells.