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Designing an IHC experiment for FCGR3A? 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.
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Facts about Low affinity immunoglobulin gamma Fc region receptor III-A.
Receptor for the Fc region of IgG.
Binds complexed or aggregated IgG and also monomeric IgG.Mediates antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) and other antibody-dependent responses, such as phagocytosis. .
| Human | |
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| Gene Name: | FCGR3A |
| Uniprot: | P08637 |
| Entrez: | 2214 |

| Belongs to: |
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| No superfamily |

CD16a antigen; CD16a; CD16FCRIIIA; Fc fragment of IgG, low affinity IIIa, receptor (CD16a); Fc fragment of IgG, low affinity IIIa, receptor for (CD16); Fc gamma receptor III-A; Fc gamma RIIIA; FCG3; Fc-gamma receptor III-2 (CD 16); Fc-gamma receptor IIIb (CD16); Fc-gamma RIII; Fc-gamma RIIIa; Fc-gamma RIII-alpha; FCGR3; FCGR3A; FCGRIII; FcgRIIIA; FcR-10; FCRIII; FcRIIIa; IGFR3FcgammaRIIIA; immunoglobulin G Fc receptor III; low affinity III, receptor for (CD16); low affinity immunoglobulin gamma Fc region receptor III-A; neutrophil-specific antigen NA
Mass (kDA):
29.089 kDA

| Human | |
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| Location: | 1q23.3 |
| Sequence: | 1; NC_000001.11 (161541759..161550737, complement) |
Expressed on natural killer cells, macrophages, subpopulation of T-cells, immature thymocytes and placental trophoblasts.
Cell membrane; Single-pass type I membrane protein. Secreted. Exists also as a soluble receptor.





PMID: 2526846 by Ravetch J.V., et al. Alternative membrane forms of Fc gamma RIII(CD16) on human natural killer cells and neutrophils. Cell type-specific expression of two genes that differ in single nucleotide substitutions.
PMID: 16951347 by Rogers K.A., et al. IgG Fc receptor III homologues in nonhuman primate species: genetic characterization and ligand interactions.
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