A portion of amino acids 190-290 was used as the immunogen for the TMEM173 antibody.
TMEM17 (transmembrane protein 173) is a 379 amino acid protein encoded by a gene mapping to human chromosome 5. With 181 million base pairs encoding around 1,000 genes, chromosome 5 is about 6% of human genomic DNA. It is associated with Cockayne syndrom