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Designing an IHC experiment for Cystatin-M? 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 CST6 IHC GuideFacts about Cystatin-M.
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | CST6 |
| Uniprot: | Q15828 |
| Entrez: | 1474 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| cystatin family |

CST6; cystatin 6; Cystatin E/M; cystatin M; cystatin M/E; Cystatin-6; cystatin-E; cystatin-M; cysteine proteinase inhibitor
Mass (kDA):
16.511 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 11q13.1 |
| Sequence: | 11; NC_000011.10 (66012008..66013505) |
Restricted to the stratum granulosum of normal skin, the stratum granulosum/spinosum of psoriatic skin, and the secretory coils of eccrine sweat glands. Low expression levels are found in the nasal cavity.
Secreted.




PMID: 8995380 by Sotiropoulou G., et al. Identification, cloning, and characterization of cystatin M, a novel cysteine proteinase inhibitor, down-regulated in breast cancer.
PMID: 9099741 by Ni J., et al. Cystatin E is a novel human cysteine proteinase inhibitor with structural resemblance to family 2 cystatins.