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Designing a Western blot for TRPC6? 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 TRPC6 Western Blot Guide
Facts about Short transient receptor potential channel 6.
Activated by diacylglycerol (DAG) in a membrane-delimited fashion, independently of protein kinase C (PubMed:26892346). Seems not to be activated by intracellular calcium store depletion.
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | TRPC6 |
| Uniprot: | Q9Y210 |
| Entrez: | 7225 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| transient receptor (TC 1.A.4) family |

FLJ11098; FSGS2; short transient receptor potential channel 6; transient receptor potential cation channel, subfamily C, member 6; Transient receptor protein 6; TRP-6; TRP6FLJ14863; TrpC6
Mass (kDA):
106.326 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 11q22.1 |
| Sequence: | 11; NC_000011.10 (101451470..101584007, complement) |
Expressed primarily in placenta, lung, spleen, ovary and small intestine. Expressed in podocytes and is a component of the glomerular slit diaphragm.
Cell membrane; Multi-pass membrane protein.






PMID: 9930701 by Hofmann T., et al. Direct activation of human TRPC6 and TRPC3 channels by diacylglycerol.
PMID: 9925922 by D'Esposito M., et al. Identification and assignment of the human transient receptor potential channel 6 gene TRPC6 to chromosome 11q21-22.
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