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Designing a Western blot for FAAH? 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 FAAH Western Blot GuideFacts about Fatty-acid amide hydrolase 1.
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| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | FAAH |
| Uniprot: | O00519 |
| Entrez: | 2166 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| amidase family |

Anandamide amidohydrolase 1; EC 3.5.1; EC 3.5.1.99; EC 3.5.1.n2; FAAH1; FAAH-1; fatty acid amide hydrolase; fatty-acid amide hydrolase 1; MGC102823; MGC138146; Oleamide hydrolase 1
Mass (kDA):
63.066 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 1p33 |
| Sequence: | 1; NC_000001.11 (46394317..46413845) |
Highly expressed in the brain, small intestine, pancreas, skeletal muscle and testis. Also expressed in the kidney, liver, lung, placenta and prostate.
Endomembrane system; Single-pass membrane protein. Cytoplasm, cytoskeleton. Seems to be attached to intracellular membranes and a portion of the cytoskeletal network.






PMID: 9122178 by Giang D.K., et al. Molecular characterization of human and mouse fatty acid amide hydrolases.
PMID: 9878243 by Wan M., et al. Conserved chromosomal location and genomic structure of human and mouse fatty-acid amide hydrolase genes and evaluation of clasper as a candidate neurological mutation.