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Designing a Western blot for Ddx4? The guide has the expected band size, antibodies backed by real blot images, the controls to run alongside, and protocols taken from published papers.
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Facts about ATP-dependent RNA helicase DDX4.
Involved in the secondary piRNAs metabolic process, the production of piRNAs in fetal male germ cells through a ping-pong amplification cycle (PubMed:20439430, PubMed:28633017). Required for PIWIL2 slicing- triggered piRNA biogenesis: helicase activity enables utilization of one of the slice cleavage fragments generated by PIWIL2 and processing these pre-piRNAs to piRNAs (PubMed:28633017).
| Mouse | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | Ddx4 |
| Uniprot: | Q61496 |
| Entrez: | 13206 |

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

DDX4; DEAD (Asp-Glu-Ala-Asp) box polypeptide 4; DEAD box protein 4; EC 3.6.1; EC 3.6.4.13; MGC111074; probable ATP-dependent RNA helicase DDX4; Vasa homolog; VASA; VASADEAD/H (Asp-Glu-Ala-Asp/His) box polypeptide 4
Mass (kDA):
76.47 kDA

| Mouse | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 13 D2.2|13 63.87 cM |
| Sequence: | 13; |
Testis-specific.



PMID: 7991615 by Fujiwara Y., et al. Isolation of a DEAD-family protein gene that encodes a murine homolog of Drosophila vasa and its specific expression in germ cell lineage.
PMID: 14736746 by Kuramochi-Miyagawa S., et al. Mili, a mammalian member of piwi family gene, is essential for spermatogenesis.
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