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Designing a Western blot for Gamma-glutamyl hydrolase? 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 GGH Western Blot GuideFacts about Gamma-glutamyl hydrolase.
May play an essential role in the bioavailability of dietary pteroylpolyglutamates and in the metabolism of pteroylpolyglutamates and antifolates. .
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | GGH |
| Uniprot: | Q92820 |
| Entrez: | 8836 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| peptidase C26 family |

Conjugase; EC 3.4.19.9; gamma-glutamyl hydrolase (conjugase, folylpolygammaglutamyl hydrolase); gamma-glutamyl hydrolase; Gamma-Glu-X carboxypeptidase; GH
Mass (kDA):
35.964 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 8q12.3 |
| Sequence: | 8; NC_000008.11 (63015079..63038806, complement) |
Secreted, extracellular space. Lysosome. Melanosome. While its intracellular location is primarily the lysosome, most of the enzyme activity is secreted. Identified by mass spectrometry in melanosome fractions from stage I to stage IV.




PMID: 8816764 by Yao R., et al. Human gamma-glutamyl hydrolase: cloning and characterization of the enzyme expressed in vitro.
PMID: 10570974 by Yin D., et al. Structural organization of the human gamma-glutamyl hydrolase gene.