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Designing a Western blot for Hamartin? 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 TSC1 Western Blot GuideDesigning an IHC experiment for Hamartin? 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 TSC1 IHC Guide
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Facts about Hamartin.
Implicated as a tumor suppressor. Involved in microtubule-mediated protein transport, but this appears to be due to unregulated mTOR signaling (By similarity).
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | TSC1 |
| Uniprot: | Q92574 |
| Entrez: | 7248 |

| Belongs to: |
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| No superfamily |

Hamartin; KIAA0243MGC86987; LAMhamartin; TSC; TSC1; Tuberous sclerosis 1 protein; tuberous sclerosis 1; tumor suppressor
Mass (kDA):
129.767 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 9q34.13 |
| Sequence: | 9; NC_000009.12 (132891349..132945269, complement) |
Highly expressed in skeletal muscle, followed by heart, brain, placenta, pancreas, lung, liver and kidney. Also expressed in embryonic kidney cells.
Cytoplasm. Membrane; Peripheral membrane protein. At steady state found in association with membranes.






PMID: 9242607 by van Slegtenhorst M.A., et al. Identification of the tuberous sclerosis gene TSC1 on chromosome 9q34.
PMID: 9809973 by Plank T.L., et al. Hamartin, the product of the tuberous sclerosis 1 (TSC1) gene, interacts with tuberin and appears to be localized to cytoplasmic vesicles.