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Designing an IHC experiment for PNPLA8? 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 PNPLA8 IHC GuideFacts about Calcium-independent phospholipase A2-gamma.
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| Human | |
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| Gene Name: | PNPLA8 |
| Uniprot: | Q9NP80 |
| Entrez: | 50640 |

| Belongs to: |
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| No superfamily |

calcium-independent phospholipase A2-gamma; EC 3.1.1.5; Intracellular membrane-associated calcium-independent phospholipase A2 gamma; iPLA2 gamma; IPLA22; IPLA2-2; iPLA2-gamma; IPLA2GIPLA2(GAMMA); membrane-associated calcium-independent phospholipase A2 gamma; patatin-like phospholipase domain containing 8; Patatin-like phospholipase domain-containing protein 8; PNPLA-gamma
Mass (kDA):
88.477 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 7q31.1 |
| Sequence: | 7; NC_000007.14 (108470417..108528178, complement) |
Expressed in parenchymal tissues including heart, skeletal muscle, placenta, brain, liver and pancreas. Also expressed in bronchial epithelial cells and kidney. Highest expression is observed in skeletal muscle and heart.
Endoplasmic reticulum membrane; Single-pass membrane protein. Golgi apparatus membrane; Single-pass membrane protein. Cytoplasm, perinuclear region.




PMID: 10833412 by Tanaka H., et al. A novel intracellular membrane-bound calcium-independent phospholipase A(2).
PMID: 10744668 by Mancuso D.J., et al. The genomic organization, complete mRNA sequence, cloning, and expression of a novel human intracellular membrane-associated calcium- independent phospholipase A(2).