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Designing an IHC experiment for Cytochrome P450 4V2? 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 CYP4V2 IHC GuideFacts about Cytochrome P450 4V2.
The substrate specificity is higher for myristate > laurate > palmitate (C14>C16>C12) (PubMed:19661213). Acts as a polyunsaturated omega-3 fatty acids hydroxylase by mediating oxidation of docosahexaenoate (DHA) to 22-hydroxydocosahexaenoate (PubMed:22772592).
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | CYP4V2 |
| Uniprot: | Q6ZWL3 |
| Entrez: | 285440 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| cytochrome P450 family |

BCD; CYP4AH1; cytochrome P450 4V2; cytochrome P450, family 4, subfamily V, polypeptide 2; EC 1.14; EC 1.14.14.1; FLJ18432; MGC43534
Mass (kDA):
60.724 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 4q35.1-q35.2 |
| Sequence: | 4; NC_000004.12 (186191567..186213463) |
Broadly expressed. Detected in heart, brain, placenta, lung, liver, skeletal muscle, kidney, pancreas, retina, retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and lymphocytes.
Endoplasmic reticulum membrane; Single-pass membrane protein.




PMID: 15042513 by Li A., et al. Bietti crystalline corneoretinal dystrophy is caused by mutations in the novel gene CYP4V2.
PMID: 19661213 by Nakano M., et al. Expression and characterization of CYP4V2 as a fatty acid omega- hydroxylase.