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Designing a Western blot for PINK1? 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 PINK1 Western Blot GuideDesigning an IHC experiment for PINK1? 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 PINK1 IHC Guide8 Citations
Facts about Serine/threonine-protein kinase PINK1, mitochondrial.
Targets PRKN to dysfunctional depolarized mitochondria through the phosphorylation of MFN2 (PubMed:23620051). Activates PRKN in two steps: (1) by mediating phosphorylation in'Ser-65' of PRKN and (2) mediating phosphorylation of ubiquitin, converting PRKN to its fully-active form (PubMed:24660806, PubMed:24751536, PubMed:24784582, PubMed:25527291).
| Human | |
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| Gene Name: | PINK1 |
| Uniprot: | Q9BXM7 |
| Entrez: | 65018 |

| Belongs to: |
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| protein kinase superfamily |

PINK1; BRPK; BRPK; EC 2.7.11.1; FLJ27236; Mitochondrial; PARK6; Parkinson disease (autosomal recessive) 6; PINK1; PINK1 mouse; PINK1 polyclonal; PINK1; protein kinase BRPK; PTEN Induced Kinase 1; PTEN induced putative kinase 1; PTEN-induced putative kinase protein 1; serine/threonine-protein kinase PINK1, mitochondrial
Mass (kDA):
62.769 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 1p36.12 |
| Sequence: | 1; NC_000001.11 (20633458..20651511) |
Highly expressed in heart, skeletal muscle and testis, and at lower levels in brain, placenta, liver, kidney, pancreas, prostate, ovary and small intestine. Present in the embryonic testis from an early stage of development.
Mitochondrion outer membrane; Single-pass membrane protein. Mitochondrion inner membrane; Single-pass membrane protein. Cytoplasm, cytosol. Localizes mostly in mitochondrion and the 2 proteolytic processed fragments of 55 kDa and 48 kDa localize mainly in cytosol.






PMID: 11494141 by Unoki M., et al. Growth-suppressive effects of BPOZ and EGR2, two genes involved in the PTEN signaling pathway.
PMID: 14607334 by Nakajima A., et al. BRPK, a novel protein kinase showing increased expression in mouse cancer cell lines with higher metastatic potential.