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Designing an IHC experiment for HSD3B7? 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 HSD3B7 IHC GuideFacts about 3 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 7.
Doesn't metabolize several different C(19/21) steroids as substrates. Involved in bile acid synthesis (PubMed:11067870).
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | HSD3B7 |
| Uniprot: | Q9H2F3 |
| Entrez: | 80270 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| 3-beta-HSD family |

3 beta-hydroxy-delta 5-C27-steroid oxidoreductase; 3 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 7; 3 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type VII; 3-beta-HSD VII; 7-alpha-diol 3-beta-dehydrogenase; C(27) 3-beta-HSD; C(27)-3BETA-HSD; Cholest-5-ene-3-beta; EC 1.1.1.-; EC 1.1.1.181; hydroxy-delta-5-steroid dehydrogenase, 3 beta- and steroid delta-isomerase 7,3-beta-hydroxy-Delta(5)-C27 steroid oxidoreductase; PFIC4; SDR11E3; short chain dehydrogenase/reductase family 11E, member 3
Mass (kDA):
41.016 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 16p11.2 |
| Sequence: | 16; NC_000016.10 (30985189..30989152) |
Endoplasmic reticulum membrane; Multi-pass membrane protein.





PMID: 11067870 by Schwarz M., et al. The bile acid synthetic gene 3beta-hydroxy-delta(5)-C(27)-steroid oxidoreductase is mutated in progressive intrahepatic cholestasis.
PMID: 12679481 by Cheng J.B., et al. Molecular genetics of 3beta-hydroxy-Delta5-C27-steroid oxidoreductase deficiency in 16 patients with loss of bile acid synthesis and liver disease.