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Designing a Western blot for Periplakin? 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 PPL Western Blot GuideFacts about Periplakin.
May act as a localization signal in PKB/AKT-mediated signaling. .
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | PPL |
| Uniprot: | O60437 |
| Entrez: | 5493 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| plakin or cytolinker family |

190 kDa paraneoplastic pemphigus antigen; 195 kDa cornified envelope precursor protein; KIAA0568; MGC134872; periplakin
Mass (kDA):
204.747 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 16p13.3 |
| Sequence: | 16; NC_000016.10 (4882507..4937148, complement) |
Expressed in stratified squamous epithelia and in some other epithelia.
Cell junction, desmosome. Cytoplasm, cytoskeleton. Cell membrane. Nucleus. Mitochondrion. Associated with desmosomes and intermediate filaments.





PMID: 9412476 by Ruhrberg C., et al. Periplakin, a novel component of cornified envelopes and desmosomes that belongs to the plakin family and forms complexes with envoplakin.
PMID: 9521878 by Aho S., et al. cDNA cloning, mRNA expression, and chromosomal mapping of human and mouse periplakin genes.