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Designing a Western blot for TPMT? The guide has the expected band size, antibodies backed by real blot images, the controls to run alongside, and protocols taken from published papers.
Open the TPMT Western Blot Guide
Facts about Thiopurine S-methyltransferase.
A natural substrate for this enzyme has not yet been identified. .
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | TPMT |
| Uniprot: | P51580 |
| Entrez: | 7172 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| class I-like SAM-binding methyltransferase superfamily |

EC 2.1.1.67; S-adenosyl-L-methionine:thiopurine S-methyltransferase; Thiopurine methyltransferase; thiopurine S-methyltransferase
Mass (kDA):
28.18 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 6p22.3 |
| Sequence: | 6; NC_000006.12 (18128311..18155169, complement) |
Cytoplasm.




PMID: 8316220 by Honchel R., et al. Human thiopurine methyltransferase: molecular cloning and expression of T84 colon carcinoma cell cDNA.
PMID: 7628307 by Lee D., et al. Thiopurine methyltransferase pharmacogenetics. Cloning of human liver cDNA and a processed pseudogene on human chromosome 18q21.1.