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Designing an IHC experiment for Serine protease hepsin? 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.
Open the HPN IHC GuideFacts about Serine protease hepsin.
Plays a role in the proteolytic processing of ACE2 (PubMed:24227843). Mediates the proteolytic cleavage of urinary UMOD that is required for UMOD polymerization (PubMed:26673890).
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | HPN |
| Uniprot: | P05981 |
| Entrez: | 3249 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| peptidase S1 family |

EC 3.4.21; EC 3.4.21.106; Hepsin; HPN; serine protease hepsin catalytic chain; serine protease hepsin; TMPRSS1 ; TMPRSS1serine protease hepsin non-catalytic chain; Transmembrane protease serine 1; transmembrane protease, serine 1
Mass (kDA):
45.011 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 19q13.11 |
| Sequence: | 19; NC_000019.10 (35040506..35066573) |
Detected in liver and kidney.
Cell membrane; Single-pass type II membrane protein. Apical cell membrane; Single-pass type II membrane protein.





PMID: 2835076 by Leytus S.P., et al. A novel trypsin-like serine protease (hepsin) with a putative transmembrane domain expressed by human liver and hepatoma cells.
PMID: 1885621 by Tsuji A., et al. Hepsin, a cell membrane-associated protease. Characterization, tissue distribution, and gene localization.