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Designing a Western blot for XPA? 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 XPA Western Blot Guide
Facts about DNA repair protein complementing XP-A cells.
Required for UV-induced CHEK1 phosphorylation and the recruitment of CEP164 to cyclobutane pyrimidine dimmers (CPD), sites of DNA damage after UV irradiation. .
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | XPA |
| Uniprot: | P23025 |
| Entrez: | 7507 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| XPA family |

DNA repair protein complementing XP-A cells; excision repair-controlling; Xeroderma pigmentosum group A-complementing protein; xeroderma pigmentosum, complementation group A; XP1; XPA; XPACXP1
Mass (kDA):
31.368 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 9q22.33 |
| Sequence: | 9; NC_000009.12 (97654398..97697409, complement) |
Expressed in various cell lines and in skin fibroblasts.
Nucleus.






PMID: 2234061 by Tanaka K., et al. Analysis of a human DNA excision repair gene involved in group A Xeroderma pigmentosum and containing a zinc-finger domain.
PMID: 8294029 by Satokata I., et al. Genomic characterization of the human DNA excision repair-controlling gene XPAC.