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Designing an IHC experiment for Zinc transporter ZIP6? 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 SLC39A6 IHC GuideFacts about Zinc transporter ZIP6.
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | SLC39A6 |
| Uniprot: | Q13433 |
| Entrez: | 25800 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| ZIP transporter (TC 2.A.5) family |

zinc transporter ZIP6; LIV-1; solute carrier family 39 (zinc transporter), member 6
Mass (kDA):
85.047 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 18q12.2 |
| Sequence: | 18; NC_000018.10 (36108531..36129868, complement) |
Highly expressed in the breast, prostate, placenta, kidney, pituitary and corpus callosum. Weakly expressed in heart and intestine. Also highly expressed in cells derived from an adenocarcinoma of the cervix and lung carcinoma.
Cell membrane; Multi-pass membrane protein.




PMID: 2903103 by Manning D.L., et al. Effects of oestrogen on the expression of a 4.4 kb mRNA in the ZR-75- 1 human breast cancer cell line.
PMID: 12839489 by Taylor K.M., et al. Structure-function analysis of LIV-1, the breast cancer-associated protein that belongs to a new subfamily of zinc transporters.
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