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Designing a Western blot for KCNH2? 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 KCNH2 Western Blot Guide3 Citations
Facts about Potassium voltage-gated channel subfamily H member 2.
Mediates the rapidly activating component of the delayed rectifying potassium current in heart (IKr) (PubMed:18559421, PubMed:26363003, PubMed:27916661). .
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | KCNH2 |
| Uniprot: | Q12809 |
| Entrez: | 3757 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| potassium channel family |

Eag homolog; Eag-related protein 1; ERG; erg1; ERG-1; Ether-a-go-go-related gene potassium channel 1; ether-a-go-go-related potassium channel protein; Ether-a-go-go-related protein 1; H-ERG; HERG1; HERGhERG-1; Kv11.1; LQT2; potassium voltage-gated channel subfamily H member 2; potassium voltage-gated channel, subfamily H (eag-related), member 2; SQT1; Voltage-gated potassium channel subunit Kv11.1
Mass (kDA):
126.655 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 7q36.1 |
| Sequence: | 7; NC_000007.14 (150944956..150978321, complement) |
Highly expressed in heart and brain. Isoforms USO are frequently overexpressed in cancer cells.
Cell membrane; Multi-pass membrane protein.






PMID: 8159766 by Warmke J.W., et al. A family of potassium channel genes related to eag in Drosophila and mammals.
PMID: 9600240 by Itoh T., et al. Genomic organization and mutational analysis of HERG, a gene responsible for familial long QT syndrome.
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