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Designing a Western blot for MMP14? 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 MMP14 Western Blot GuideDesigning an IHC experiment for MMP14? 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 MMP14 IHC Guide3 Citations
Facts about Matrix metalloproteinase-14.
Essential for pericellular collagenolysis and modeling of skeletal and extraskeletal connective tissues during development (By similarity). May be involved in actin cytoskeleton reorganization by cleaving PTK7 (PubMed:20837484).
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | MMP14 |
| Uniprot: | P50281 |
| Entrez: | 4323 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| peptidase M10A family |

EC 3.4.24; EC 3.4.24.80; matrix metallopeptidase 14 (membrane-inserted); matrix metalloproteinase 14 (membrane-inserted); matrix metalloproteinase-14; membrane type 1 metalloprotease; Membrane-type matrix metalloproteinase 1; Membrane-type-1 matrix metalloproteinase; MMP14; MMP-14; MMP-X1; MT1MMP; MT1-MMP; MT1-MMPMTMMP1; MT-MMP 1; MT-MMP1
Mass (kDA):
65.894 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 14q11.2 |
| Sequence: | 14; NC_000014.9 (22836585..22847758) |
Expressed in stromal cells of colon, breast, and head and neck. Expressed in lung tumors.
Membrane; Single-pass type I membrane protein. Melanosome. Cytoplasm. Identified by mass spectrometry in melanosome fractions from stage I to stage IV. Forms a complex with BST2 and localizes to the cytoplasm.






PMID: 8015608 by Sato H., et al. A matrix metalloproteinase expressed on the surface of invasive tumour cells.
PMID: 7721107 by Takino T., et al. Cloning of a human gene potentially encoding a novel matrix metalloproteinase having a C-terminal transmembrane domain.
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