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Designing a Western blot for MAG? 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 Myelin-associated glycoprotein.
Protects motoneurons against apoptosis, also after trauma; protection against apoptosis is likely mediated via interaction with neuronal RTN4R and RTN4RL2. Required to prevent degeneration of myelinated axons in adults; this probably depends on binding to gangliosides on the axon cell membrane (By similarity).
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | MAG |
| Uniprot: | P20916 |
| Entrez: | 4099 |

| Belongs to: |
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| immunoglobulin superfamily |

GMAsialic acid binding Ig-like lectin 4A; MAG; myelin associated glycoprotein; myelin-associated glycoprotein; sialic acid-binding immunoglobulin-like lectin 4A; Siglec4a; Siglec-4a; S-MAG
Mass (kDA):
69.069 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 19q13.12 |
| Sequence: | 19; NC_000019.10 (35292086..35313807) |
Both isoform 1 and isoform 2 are detected in myelinated structures in the central and peripheral nervous system, in periaxonal myelin and at Schmidt-Lanterman incisures (PubMed:9495552, PubMed:6200494). Detected in optic nerve, in oligodendroglia and in periaxonal myelin sheaths (PubMed:6200494). Detected in compact myelin (at protein level) (PubMed:6200494). Both isoform 1 and isoform 2 are detected in the central and peripheral nervous system (PubMed:9495552).
Cell membrane; Single-pass type I membrane protein. Membrane raft.




PMID: 2476987 by Sato S., et al. cDNA cloning and amino acid sequence for human myelin-associated glycoprotein.
PMID: 2479762 by Spagnol G., et al. Molecular cloning of human myelin-associated glycoprotein.
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