This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website.
- Table of Contents
Designing a Western blot for Dynamin-2? 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 DNM2 Western Blot GuideFacts about Dynamin-2.
Plays an important role in vesicular trafficking processes, in particular endocytosis. Involved in cytokinesis (PubMed:12498685).
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | DNM2 |
| Uniprot: | P50570 |
| Entrez: | 1785 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| TRAFAC class dynamin-like GTPase superfamily |

CMTDI1CMT2M; CMTDIBdynamin II; DI-CMTB; DYN2EC 3.6.5.5; dynamin 2; dynamin-2; DYNII
Mass (kDA):
98.064 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 19p13.2 |
| Sequence: | 19; NC_000019.10 (10718053..10831910) |
Ubiquitously expressed.
Cytoplasm. Cytoplasm, cytoskeleton. Cell junction. Membrane, clathrin-coated pit. Cell junction, synapse, postsynaptic density. Cell junction, synapse. Midbody. Cell projection, phagocytic cup. Cytoplasmic vesicle, phagosome membrane; Peripheral membrane protein. Colocalizes with CTTN at the basis of filopodia in hippocampus neuron growth zones (By similarity). Microtubule-associated. Also found in the postsynaptic density of neuronal cells. Co-localizes with PIK3C3 and RAB5A to the nascent phagosome (By similarity).






PMID: 7590285 by Diatloff-Zito C., et al. Isolation of an ubiquitously expressed cDNA encoding human dynamin II, a member of the large GTP-binding protein family.
PMID: 11583995 by Okamoto P.M., et al. Dynamin isoform-specific interaction with the shank/ProSAP scaffolding proteins of the postsynaptic density and actin cytoskeleton.