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Designing a Western blot for Wolframin? 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 WFS1 Western Blot Guide
Facts about Wolframin.
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | WFS1 |
| Uniprot: | O76024 |
| Entrez: | 7466 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| No superfamily |

DFNA14; DFNA38; DFNA6; DIDMOAD; FLJ51211; WFRS; WFS1; WFSwolframin; Wolfram syndrome 1 (wolframin); Wolframin
Mass (kDA):
100.292 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 4p16.1 |
| Sequence: | 4; NC_000004.12 (6260368..6303265) |
Highly expressed in heart followed by brain, placenta, lung and pancreas. Weakly expressed in liver, kidney and skeletal muscle. Also expressed in islet and beta-cell insulinoma cell line.
Endoplasmic reticulum membrane; Multi-pass membrane protein.





PMID: 9817917 by Strom T.M., et al. Diabetes insipidus, diabetes mellitus, optic atrophy and deafness (DIDMOAD) caused by mutations in a novel gene (wolframin) coding for a predicted transmembrane protein.
PMID: 9771706 by Inoue H., et al. A gene encoding a transmembrane protein is mutated in patients with diabetes mellitus and optic atrophy (Wolfram Syndrome).