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Designing an IHC experiment for CLEC4C? The guide has the expected staining pattern, antigen retrieval and fixation, antibodies backed by real IHC images, the tissue controls to run alongside, and protocols taken from published papers.
Open the CLEC4C IHC GuideFacts about C-type lectin domain family 4 member C.
Binds to serum IgG (PubMed:25995448). Efficiently targets ligand into antigen- processing and peptide-loading compartments for presentation to T- cells (PubMed:11748283).
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | CLEC4C |
| Uniprot: | Q8WTT0 |
| Entrez: | 170482 |

| Belongs to: |
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| No superfamily |

BDCA2; BDCA-2; BDCA2MGC125791; blood dendritic cell antigen 2 protein; Blood dendritic cell antigen 2; CD303 antigen; CD303; CLEC4C; CLECSF11; CLECSF11PRO34150; CLECSF7; C-type (calcium dependent, carbohydrate-recognition domain) lectin, superfamilymember 11; C-type (calcium dependent, carbohydrate-recognition domain) lectin, superfamilymember 7; C-type lectin domain family 4 member C; C-type lectin superfamily member 7; dendritic cell lectin b; Dendritic lectin; DLEC; DLECMGC125792; HECL; HECLMGC125793; MGC125789; PRO34150
Mass (kDA):
25.038 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 12p13.31 |
| Sequence: | 12; NC_000012.12 (7729245..7751600, complement) |
Expressed in plasmacytoid dendritic cells (PDCs). Constitutively expressed in immature monocyte-derived dendritic cells (iMDDC) and is significantly down-regulated upon maturation with LPS but not with TNF-alpha.
Cell membrane; Single-pass type II membrane protein.




PMID: 11536172 by Arce I., et al. Molecular and genomic characterization of human DLEC, a novel member of the C-type lectin receptor gene family preferentially expressed on monocyte-derived dendritic cells.
PMID: 11748283 by Dzionek A., et al. BDCA-2, a novel plasmacytoid dendritic cell-specific type II C-type lectin, mediates antigen capture and is a potent inhibitor of interferon alpha/beta induction.