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Designing a Western blot for FMO2? 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 FMO2 Western Blot GuideFacts about Dimethylaniline monooxygenase [N-oxide-forming] 2.
Can catalyze the S-oxidation of methimazole. The truncated form is catalytically inactive.
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | FMO2 |
| Uniprot: | Q99518 |
| Entrez: | 2327 |

| Belongs to: |
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| FMO family |

dimethylaniline monooxygenase [N-oxide-forming] 2; Dimethylaniline oxidase 2; EC 1.14.13.8; flavin containing monooxygenase 2 (non-functional); flavin containing monooxygenase 2; FLJ40826; FMO 1B1; FMO 2; FMO, pulmonary; FMO1B1; Pulmonary flavin-containing monooxygenase 2
Mass (kDA):
60.907 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 1q24.3 |
| Sequence: | 1; NC_000001.11 (171185208..171212686) |
Expressed in lung (at protein level). Expressed predominantly in lung, and at a much lesser extent in kidney. Also expressed in fetal lung, but not in liver, kidney and brain.
Microsome membrane; Single-pass membrane protein. Endoplasmic reticulum membrane; Single-pass membrane protein.




PMID: 9804831 by Dolphin C.T., et al. The flavin-containing monooxygenase 2 gene (FMO2) of humans, but not of other primates, encodes a truncated, nonfunctional protein.
PMID: 11042094 by Whetstine J.R., et al. Ethnic differences in human flavin-containing monooxygenase 2 (FMO2) polymorphisms: detection of expressed protein in African-Americans.