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Designing an IHC experiment for OCRL? 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 OCRL IHC GuideFacts about Inositol polyphosphate 5-phosphatase OCRL.
May function in lysosomal membrane trafficking by regulating the specific pool of phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate that is associated with lysosomes. Involved in primary cilia assembly (PubMed:22228094, PubMed:22543976).
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | OCRL |
| Uniprot: | Q01968 |
| Entrez: | 4952 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate 5-phosphatase type II family |

EC 3.1.3.36; INPP5F; LOCR; Lowe oculocerebrorenal syndrome protein; NPHL2; OCRL1inositol polyphosphate 5-phosphatase OCRL-1; oculocerebrorenal syndrome of Lowe; phosphatidylinositol polyphosphate 5-phosphatase
Mass (kDA):
104.205 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | Xq26.1 |
| Sequence: | X; NC_000023.11 (129540259..129592556) |
Brain, skeletal muscle, heart, kidney, lung, placenta and fibroblasts. Expressed in the retina and the retinal pigment epithelium.
Cytoplasmic vesicle, phagosome membrane. Early endosome membrane. Membrane, clathrin-coated pit. Cell projection, cilium, photoreceptor outer segment. Cell projection, cilium. Cytoplasmic vesicle. Endosome. Golgi apparatus, trans-Golgi network. Lysosome. Also found on macropinosomes (PubMed:25869668). Colocalized with APPL1 on phagosomes (PubMed:22072788).






PMID: 1321346 by Attree O., et al. The Lowe's oculocerebrorenal syndrome gene encodes a protein highly homologous to inositol polyphosphate-5-phosphatase.
PMID: 9048911 by Nussbaum R.L., et al. Physical mapping and genomic structure of the Lowe syndrome gene OCRL1.