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Designing a Western blot for SHMT2? 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 SHMT2 Western Blot GuideDesigning an IHC experiment for SHMT2? 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 SHMT2 IHC Guide1 Citations
Facts about Serine hydroxymethyltransferase, mitochondrial.
Contributes to the de novo mitochondrial thymidylate biosynthesis pathway via its role in glycine and tetrahydrofolate metabolism: thymidylate biosynthesis is needed to stop uracil accumulation in mtDNA (PubMed:21876188). Also required for mitochondrial translation by producing 5,10- methylenetetrahydrofolate; 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate providing methyl donors to produce the taurinomethyluridine base in the wobble position of some mitochondrial tRNAs (PubMed:29452640, PubMed:29364879).
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | SHMT2 |
| Uniprot: | P34897 |
| Entrez: | 6472 |

| Belongs to: |
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| SHMT family |

EC 2.1.2.1; GLY A+; GLYA; glycine auxotroph A, human complement for hamster; Glycine hydroxymethyltransferase; serine aldolase; serine hydroxymethylase; serine hydroxymethyltransferase 2 (mitochondrial); serine hydroxymethyltransferase, mitochondrial; Serine methylase; SHMT; threonine aldolase
Mass (kDA):
55.993 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 12q13.3 |
| Sequence: | 12; NC_000012.12 (57229685..57234935) |
Mitochondrion. Mitochondrion matrix, mitochondrion nucleoid. Mitochondrion inner membrane. Cytoplasm. Nucleus. Mainly localizes in the mitochondrion. Also found in the cytoplasm and nucleus as part of the BRISC complex (PubMed:24075985).





PMID: 10828359 by Snell K., et al. The genetic organization and protein crystallographic structure of human serine hydroxymethyltransferase.
PMID: 8999870 by Stover P.J., et al. Molecular cloning, characterization, and regulation of the human mitochondrial serine hydroxymethyltransferase gene.