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Designing an IHC experiment for SPTBN4? 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 SPTBN4 IHC GuideFacts about Spectrin beta chain, non-erythrocytic 4.
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | SPTBN4 |
| Uniprot: | Q9H254 |
| Entrez: | 57731 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| spectrin family |

beta-IV spectrin; KIAA1642; QV; spectrin beta chain, brain 3; spectrin, beta, non-erythrocytic 4; spectrin, non-erythroid beta chain 3; SPNB4; SPTBN3
Mass (kDA):
288.985 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 19q13.2 |
| Sequence: | 19; NC_000019.10 (40467001..40576464) |
Expressed in skeletal muscle at the sarcolemma and in the muscle capillaries (at protein level) (PubMed:28540413). Abundantly expressed in brain and pancreatic islets (PubMed:11086001).
Cytoplasm, cytoskeleton. Cytoplasm, cell cortex.



PMID: 11294830 by Tse W.T., et al. A new spectrin, beta-IV, has a major truncated isoform that associates with promyelocytic leukemia protein nuclear bodies and the nuclear matrix.
PMID: 11086001 by Berghs S., et al. BetaIV spectrin, a new spectrin localized at axon initial segments and nodes of Ranvier in the central and peripheral nervous system.