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Designing a Western blot for Histone deacetylase 8? 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 HDAC8 Western Blot GuideFacts about Histone deacetylase 8.
Histone deacetylases act via the formation of large multiprotein complexes. Also included in the deacetylation of cohesin complex protein SMC3 regulating release of cohesin complexes from chromatin.
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | HDAC8 |
| Uniprot: | Q9BY41 |
| Entrez: | 55869 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| histone deacetylase family |

EC 3.5.1.98; HD8; HDAC8; HDACL1; Histone Deacetylase 8; histone deacetylase-like 1; RPD3
Mass (kDA):
41.758 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | Xq13.1 |
| Sequence: | X; NC_000023.11 (72329516..72573103, complement) |
Weakly expressed in most tissues. Expressed at higher level in heart, brain, kidney and pancreas and also in liver, lung, placenta, prostate and kidney.
Nucleus. Cytoplasm. Excluded from the nucleoli. Found in the cytoplasm of cells showing smooth muscle differentiation.





PMID: 10748112 by Hu E., et al. Cloning and characterization of a novel human class I histone deacetylase that functions as a transcription repressor.
PMID: 10926844 by Buggy J.J., et al. Cloning and characterization of a novel human histone deacetylase, HDAC8.