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Designing an IHC experiment for Sacsin? 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.
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Facts about Sacsin.
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | SACS |
| Uniprot: | Q9NZJ4 |
| Entrez: | 26278 |

| Belongs to: |
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| No superfamily |

ARSACS; dnaJ homolog subfamily C member 29; DNAJC29; KIAA0730; SACS; Sacsin; spastic ataxia of Charlevoix-Saguenay (sacsin)
Mass (kDA):
521.126 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 13q12.12 |
| Sequence: | 13; NC_000013.11 (23328827..23433728, complement) |
Highly expressed in the central nervous system. Also found in skeletal muscle and at low levels in pancreas.
Cytoplasm. Predominantly cytoplasmic, a small portion is present in the nucleus and also shows a partial mitochondrial overlap with the mitochondrial marker Hsp60.




PMID: 10655055 by Engert J.C., et al. ARSACS, a spastic ataxia common in northeastern Quebec, is caused by mutations in a new gene encoding an 11.5-kb ORF.
PMID: 19208651 by Parfitt D.A., et al. The ataxia protein sacsin is a functional co-chaperone that protects against polyglutamine-expanded ataxin-1.