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Designing a Western blot for USP16? The guide has the expected band size, antibodies backed by real blot images, the controls to run alongside, and protocols taken from published papers.
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Facts about Ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal hydrolase 16.
In resting B- and T- lymphocytes, phosphorylation by AURKB contributes to enhance its activity, thereby keeping transcription in resting lymphocytes. Regulates Hox gene expression via histone H2A deubiquitination.
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | USP16 |
| Uniprot: | Q9Y5T5 |
| Entrez: | 10600 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| peptidase C19 family |

Deubiquitinating enzyme 16; EC 3.1.2.15; EC 3.4.19.12; human ubiquitin processing protease, EC 3.1.2.1510ubiquitin specific protease 16; ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal hydrolase 16; ubiquitin specific peptidase 16; ubiquitin thioesterase 16; Ubiquitin thiolesterase 16; Ubiquitin-processing protease UBP-M; ubiquitin-specific processing protease 16; Ubiquitin-specific-processing protease 16; UBP-M
Mass (kDA):
93.57 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 21q21.3 |
| Sequence: | 21; NC_000021.9 (29024617..29054488) |
Present in all the tissues examined including fetal brain, lung, liver, kidney, and adult heart, brain, placenta, lung, liver, skeletal muscle, kidney and pancreas.
Nucleus.





PMID: 10077596 by Cai S.-Y., et al. A mutant deubiquitinating enzyme (Ubp-M) associates with mitotic chromosomes and blocks cell division.
PMID: 11753566 by Mimnaugh E.G., et al. Caspase-dependent deubiquitination of monoubiquitinated nucleosomal histone H2A induced by diverse apoptogenic stimuli.