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Designing a Western blot for Occludin? 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 OCLN Western Blot GuideFacts about Occludin.
| Mouse | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | Ocln |
| Uniprot: | Q61146 |
| Entrez: | 18260 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| ELL/occludin family |

BLCPMG; Occludin; OCLN
Mass (kDA):
59 kDA

| Mouse | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 13 D1|13 53.23 cM |
| Sequence: | 13; |
Localized at tight junctions of both epithelial and endothelial cells. Highly expressed in the testis, kidney, lung, liver and brain. Not detected in skeletal muscle, spleen and heart.



PMID: 8601611 by Ando-Akatsuka Y., et al. Interspecies diversity of the occludin sequence: cDNA cloning of human, mouse, dog, and rat-kangaroo homologues.
PMID: 11102513 by Saitou M., et al. Complex phenotype of mice lacking occludin, a component of tight junction strands.
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