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Designing an IHC experiment for DOCK1? 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 DOCK1 IHC GuideFacts about Dedicator of cytokinesis protein 1.
Functions as a guanine nucleotide exchange factor (GEF), which activates Rac Rho small GTPases by exchanging bound GDP for free GTP. Its GEF activity could be improved by ELMO1 (PubMed:8657152).
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | DOCK1 |
| Uniprot: | Q14185 |
| Entrez: | 1793 |

| Belongs to: |
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| DOCK family |

180 kDa protein downstream of CRK; ced5; dedicator of cytokinesis 1; dedicator of cyto-kinesis 1; DOCK1; DOCK180; DOCK180dedicator of cytokinesis protein 1; DOwnstream of CrK
Mass (kDA):
215.346 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 10q26.2 |
| Sequence: | 10; NC_000010.11 (126905428..127452517) |
Highly expressed in placenta, lung, kidney, pancreas and ovary. Expressed at intermediate level in thymus, testes and colon.
Cytoplasm. Membrane. Recruited to membranes via its interaction with phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate.





PMID: 8657152 by Hasegawa H., et al. DOCK180, a major CRK-binding protein, alters cell morphology upon translocation to the cell membrane.
PMID: 8662907 by Matsuda M., et al. Interaction between the amino-terminal SH3 domain of CRK and its natural target proteins.