This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website.
- Table of Contents
Designing an IHC experiment for Opsin-5? 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 OPN5 IHC GuideFacts about Opsin-5.
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | OPN5 |
| Uniprot: | Q6U736 |
| Entrez: | 221391 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| G-protein coupled receptor 1 family |

dJ402H5.1; GPR136; G-protein coupled receptor 136; G-protein coupled receptor PGR12; Neuropsin; opsin 5; opsin-5; PGR12; TMEM13; Transmembrane protein 13neuropsin
Mass (kDA):
39.727 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 6p12.3 |
| Sequence: | 6; NC_000006.12 (47782037..47831088) |
Detected in brain and retina and cell lines derived from neural retina.
Membrane; Multi-pass membrane protein.





PMID: 14623103 by Tarttelin E.E., et al. Neuropsin (Opn5): a novel opsin identified in mammalian neural tissue.
PMID: 14623098 by Fredriksson R., et al. Seven evolutionarily conserved human rhodopsin G protein-coupled receptors lacking close relatives.