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Designing an IHC experiment for Trophoblast glycoprotein? 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 Trophoblast glycoprotein.
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | TPBG |
| Uniprot: | Q13641 |
| Entrez: | 7162 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| No superfamily |

5T4 oncofetal trophoblast glycoprotein; 5T4 oncotrophoblast glycoprotein; 5T4; 5T4AG; 5T4-AG; 5T4M6P1,5T4 oncofetal antigen; M6P1; TPBG; trophoblast glycoprotein
Mass (kDA):
46.032 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 6q14.1 |
| Sequence: | 6; NC_000006.12 (82362983..82367420) |
Expressed by all types of trophoblasts as early as 9 weeks of development. Specific for trophoblastic cells except for amniotic epithelium. In adult tissues, the expression is limited to a few epithelial cell types but is found on a variety of carcinoma.
Cell membrane; Single-pass type I membrane protein.




PMID: 8132670 by Myers K.A., et al. Isolation of a cDNA encoding 5T4 oncofetal trophoblast glycoprotein: an antigen associated with metastasis contains leucine rich repeats.
PMID: 12481437 by Mulryan K., et al. Attenuated recombinant vaccinia virus expressing oncofetal antigen (tumor-associated antigen) 5T4 induces active therapy of established tumors.