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Designing an IHC experiment for Tropomyosin beta chain? 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 Tropomyosin beta chain.
Smooth muscle contraction is regulated by interaction with caldesmon. In non-muscle cells is implicated in stabilizing cytoskeleton actin filaments.
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | TPM2 |
| Uniprot: | P07951 |
| Entrez: | 7169 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| tropomyosin family |

distal, type 1; tropomyosin 2 (beta)
Mass (kDA):
32.851 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 9p13.3 |
| Sequence: | 9; NC_000009.12 (35681993..35690056, complement) |
Present in primary breast cancer tissue, absent from normal breast tissue.
Cytoplasm, cytoskeleton. Associates with F-actin stress fibers.




PMID: 3865200 by MacLeod A.R., et al. A muscle-type tropomyosin in human fibroblasts: evidence for expression by an alternative RNA splicing mechanism.
PMID: 3368322 by Widada J.S., et al. Complete nucleotide sequence of the adult skeletal isoform of human skeletal muscle beta-tropomyosin.