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Designing an IHC experiment for DDX3Y? 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 DDX3Y IHC GuideFacts about ATP-dependent RNA helicase DDX3Y.
Probable ATP-dependent RNA helicase.
May play a role in spermatogenesis..
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | DDX3Y |
| Uniprot: | O15523 |
| Entrez: | 8653 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| DEAD box helicase family |

ATP-dependent RNA helicase DDX3Y; DBYEC 3.6.4.13; DEAD (Asp-Glu-Ala-Asp) box polypeptide 3, Y-linked; DEAD box protein 3, Y-chromosomal; DEAD/H (Asp-Glu-Ala-Asp/His) box polypeptide, Y chromosome; EC 3.6.1
Mass (kDA):
73.154 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | Yq11.221 |
| Sequence: | Y; NC_000024.10 (12903999..12920478) |
Testis-specific. Expressed predominantly in spermatogonia.
Cytoplasm. Nucleus. Shuttles between the nucleus and the cytoplasm in an XPO1-dependent manner.




PMID: 9381176 by Lahn B.T., et al. Functional coherence of the human Y chromosome.
PMID: 15383328 by Sekiguchi T., et al. Human DDX3Y, the Y-encoded isoform of RNA helicase DDX3, rescues a hamster temperature-sensitive ET24 mutant cell line with a DDX3X mutation.