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Designing a Western blot for WDR5? 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 WDR5 Western Blot Guide
Facts about WD repeat-containing protein 5.
As part of the MLL1/MLL complex it is involved in methylation and dimethylation in'Lys-4' of histone H3. H3 'Lys-4' methylation represents a specific tag for epigenetic transcriptional activation.
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | WDR5 |
| Uniprot: | P61964 |
| Entrez: | 11091 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| WD repeat WDR5/wds family |

BIG3; BIG-3; BMP2-induced 3-kb gene protein; SWD3; SWD3, Set1c WD40 repeat protein, homolog; WD repeat domain 5; WD repeat-containing protein 5; WDR5; WD-repeat protein 5
Mass (kDA):
36.588 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 9q34.2 |
| Sequence: | 9; NC_000009.12 (134135382..134159972) |
Nucleus.





PMID: 12670868 by Wysocka J., et al. Human Sin3 deacetylase and trithorax-related Set1/Ash2 histone H3-K4 methyltransferase are tethered together selectively by the cell- proliferation factor HCF-1.
PMID: 14992727 by Hughes C.M., et al. Menin associates with a trithorax family histone methyltransferase complex and with the hoxc8 locus.