Description
Product Characteristics:
Involved in cytoskeletal rearrangements required for phagocytosis of apoptotic cells and cell motility. Functions as a guanine nucleotide exchange factor (GEF), which activates Rac Rho small GTPases by exchanging bound GDP for free GTP. Its GEF activity may be enhanced by ELMO1.Tissue specificity: Highly expressed in placenta, lung, kidney, pancreas and ovary. Expressed at intermediate level in thymus, testes and colon.
Subcellular location: Cytoplasm, Cell membrane
Synonyms: 180 kDa protein downstream of CRK, Ced5, Dedicator of Cytokinesis 1, Dedicator of cytokinesis protein 1, DOCK 1, DOCK-1, DOCK 180, DOCK1, DOCK1_HUMAN, DOCK180.
Target Information: This gene product binds to the SH3 domain of CRK protein. It may regulate cell surface extension and may have a role in the cell surface extension of an engulfing cell around a dying cell during apoptosis. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]