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Designing an IHC experiment for Protein patched homolog 1? 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 PTCH1 IHC GuideFacts about Protein patched homolog 1.
Appears to have a tumor suppressor function, as inactivation of this protein is most likely a necessary, if not sufficient step for tumorigenesis. .
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | PTCH1 |
| Uniprot: | Q13635 |
| Entrez: | 5727 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| patched family |

BCNS; BCNSFLJ42602; FLJ26746; HPE7; mes; NBCCS; patched (Drosophila) homolog; Patched 1; patched homolog (Drosophila); patched homolog 1 (Drosophila); patched homolog 1; protein patched homolog 1; PTC; ptc1; PTCH protein +12b; PTCH protein +4'; PTCH protein -10; PTCH; PTCH1; PTCH11
Mass (kDA):
160.545 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 9q22.32 |
| Sequence: | 9; NC_000009.12 (95442980..95517057, complement) |
In the adult, expressed in brain, lung, liver, heart, placenta, skeletal muscle, pancreas and kidney. Expressed in tumor cells but not in normal skin.
Cell membrane; Multi-pass membrane protein.






PMID: 8658145 by Johnson R.L., et al. Human homolog of patched, a candidate gene for the basal cell nevus syndrome.
PMID: 8647801 by Hahn H., et al. A mammalian patched homolog is expressed in target tissues of sonic hedgehog and maps to a region associated with developmental abnormalities.