DOCKING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does docking mean? 

• DOCKING (noun)
  The noun DOCKING has 1 sense:

1. the act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes

  Familiarity information: DOCKING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOCKING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

dockage; docking; moorage; tying up

Hypernyms ("docking" is a kind of...):

arrival (the act of arriving at a certain place)

Derivation:

dock (maneuver into a dock)

dock (come into dock)

 Context examples 

Several cytoplasmic docking proteins appear to be recruited by specific ErbB receptors and less exploited by others.

(ERBB Family Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

The resultant phosphoinositides act as selective membrane docking sites for signal transduction proteins with diverse PH domains.

(Phosphoinositol Kinase Family Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

Matrix proteins in the cytosol are recognized by peroxisomal targeting signals (PTS) and transported to the docking complex at the peroxisomal membrane.

(Peroxisome Biogenesis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

This allele, which encodes docking protein 1, may be involved in insulin signaling cascade modulation.

(DOK1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

It also may be a physiologically relevant docking site for calcineurin.

(Adenylate Cyclase, NCI Thesaurus)

Docking Protein 1, encoded by the human DOK1 gene, interacts with receptor tyrosine kinases and mediates particular biological responses.

(Docking Protein 1, NCI Thesaurus)

BCR Downstream Signaling 1, encoded by BRDG1 gene, functions as a docking protein acting downstream of Tec tyrosine kinase in B cell antigen receptor signaling.

(BCR Downstream Signaling 1, NCI Thesaurus)

Tyrosine phosphorylation of B-Cell Linker by SYK provides docking sites for these SH2-containing effector molecules that, in turn permits the phosphorylation and/or activation of their respective signaling pathways.

(B-Cell Linker, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene plays a critical role in nuclear transport and docking regulation.

(NUP214 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes nuclear pore complex protein Nup98-Nup96 protein, is involved in the regulation of the nuclear pore complex and protein docking.

(NUP98 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)