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Designing an IHC experiment for DNA topoisomerase 2-alpha? 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 DNA topoisomerase 2-alpha.
Essential during mitosis and meiosis for proper segregation of daughter chromosomes. May play a role in regulating the period length of ARNTL/BMAL1 transcriptional oscillation (By similarity).
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | TOP2A |
| Uniprot: | P11388 |
| Entrez: | 7153 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| type II topoisomerase family |

DNA topoisomerase (ATP-hydrolyzing); DNA topoisomerase 2-alpha; DNA topoisomerase II, 170 kD; DNA topoisomerase II, alpha isozyme; EC 5.99.1.3; TOP2; TOP2A; TOP2DNA gyrase; topoisomerase (DNA) II alpha (170kD); topoisomerase (DNA) II alpha 170kDa; TP2A
Mass (kDA):
174.385 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 17q21.2 |
| Sequence: | 17; NC_000017.11 (40388525..40417902, complement) |
Cytoplasm. Nucleus, nucleoplasm. Generally located in the nucleoplasm.






PMID: 2845399 by Tsai-Pflugfelder M., et al. Cloning and sequencing of cDNA encoding human DNA topoisomerase II and localization of the gene to chromosome region 17q21-22.
PMID: 8393377 by Wasserman R.A., et al. Use of yeast in the study of anticancer drugs targeting DNA topoisomerases: expression of a functional recombinant human DNA topoisomerase II alpha in yeast.