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Designing a Western blot for Legumain? The guide has the expected band size, antibodies backed by real blot images, the controls to run alongside, and protocols taken from published papers.
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Facts about Legumain.
Required for normal lysosomal protein degradation in renal proximal tubules. Required for normal degradation of internalized EGFR.
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | LGMN |
| Uniprot: | Q99538 |
| Entrez: | 5641 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| peptidase C13 family |

AEP; Asparaginyl Endopeptidase; cysteine protease 1; Legumain; LGMN; LGMN1; Protease, cysteine 1; protease, cysteine, 1 (legumain); PRSC1EC 3.4.22.34
Mass (kDA):
49.411 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 14q32.12 |
| Sequence: | 14; NC_000014.9 (92703809..92748627, complement) |
Ubiquitous. Particularly abundant in kidney, heart and placenta.
Lysosome.




PMID: 9065484 by Chen J.-M., et al. Cloning, isolation, and characterization of mammalian legumain, an asparaginyl endopeptidase.
PMID: 8893817 by Tanaka T., et al. Molecular cloning of a human cDNA encoding putative cysteine protease (PRSC1) and its chromosome assignment to 14q32.1.
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