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Designing a Western blot for MORC3? 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 MORC3 Western Blot GuideDesigning an IHC experiment for MORC3? 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 MORC3 IHC GuideFacts about MORC family CW-type zinc finger protein 3.
Recruits TP53 and SP100 to PML-NBs, thus regulating TP53 activity (PubMed:17332504). Binds RNA in vitro (PubMed:11927593).
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | MORC3 |
| Uniprot: | Q14149 |
| Entrez: | 23515 |

| Belongs to: |
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| No superfamily |

KIAA0136; MORC family CW-type zinc finger 3; MORC family CW-type zinc finger protein 3; nuclear matrix protein NXP2; NXP2; ZCW5; ZCWCC3; Zinc finger CW-type coiled-coil domain protein 3; zinc finger, CW type with coiled-coil domain 3; zinc finger, CW-type with coiled-coil domain 3
Mass (kDA):
107.113 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 21q22.12 |
| Sequence: | 21; NC_000021.9 (36320189..36376646) |
Expressed in heart, placenta, skeletal muscle, brain, pancreas, lung, liver, but not kidney.
Nucleus, nucleoplasm. Nucleus matrix. Nucleus, PML body. Also found in PML-independent nuclear bodies. Localization to nuclear bodies is ATP-dependent.




PMID: 11927593 by Kimura Y., et al. The newly identified human nuclear protein NXP-2 possesses three distinct domains, the nuclear matrix-binding, RNA-binding, and coiled- coil domains.
PMID: 17332504 by Takahashi K., et al. Dynamic regulation of p53 subnuclear localization and senescence by MORC3.