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Designing a Western blot for TRPV4? 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 TRPV4 Western Blot GuideDesigning an IHC experiment for TRPV4? 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.
Open the TRPV4 IHC Guide
Facts about Transient receptor potential cation channel subfamily V member 4.
Increase of intracellular Ca(2+) potentiates currents. Channel activity appears to be controlled by a calmodulin-dependent mechanism using a negative feedback mechanism (PubMed:12724311, PubMed:18826956).
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | TRPV4 |
| Uniprot: | Q9HBA0 |
| Entrez: | 59341 |

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

CMT2Cosmosensitive transient receptor potential channel 4; HMSN2C; Osm-9-like TRP channel 4; OTRPC4SSQTL1; transient receptor potential cation channel subfamily V member 4; transient receptor potential cation channel, subfamily V, member 4; Transient receptor potential protein 12; TRP12OSM9-like transient receptor potential channel 4; TrpV4; Vanilloid receptor-like channel 2; Vanilloid receptor-like protein 2; vanilloid receptor-related osmotically activated channel; Vanilloid receptor-related osmotically-activated channel; VRL2; VRL-2; VR-OAC; VROACSPSMA
Mass (kDA):
98.281 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 12q24.11 |
| Sequence: | 12; NC_000012.12 (109783087..109833398, complement) |
Found in the synoviocytes from patients with (RA) and without (CTR) rheumatoid arthritis (at protein level).
Apical cell membrane; Multi-pass membrane protein. Cell junction, adherens junction. Cell projection, cilium. Assembly of the putative homotetramer occurs primarily in the endoplasmic reticulum.; [Isoform 1]: Cell membrane.; [Isoform 5]: Cell membrane.; [Isoform 2]: Endoplasmic reticulum.; [Isoform 4]: Endoplasmic reticulum.; [Isoform 6]: Endoplasmic reticulum.





PMID: 11081638 by Liedtke W.B., et al. Vanilloid receptor-related osmotically activated channel (VR-OAC), a candidate vertebrate osmoreceptor.
PMID: 11025659 by Strotmann R., et al. OTRPC4, a nonselective cation channel that confers sensitivity to extracellular osmolarity.