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Cytogenetic band 17q24.2NCBI: 17:68,867,289-68,955,392 on the minus strand, GRCh38.p14 (GCF_000001405.40), sequence NC_000017.11, annotation GCF_000001405.40-RS_2025_08 of 2025-08-01Ensembl: 17:68,866,052-68,955,470 on the minus strand, GRCh38.p14 (GCA_000001405.29), release 116Coordinates are one-based with both ends included, as each source reports them.
The membrane-associated protein encoded by this gene is a member of the…
NCBI Gene summary
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02 / Transcripts and isoforms
The RNA a design targets
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03 / Expression by tissue
Where ABCA8 is expressed
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04 / Protein
The protein ABCA8 encodes
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05 / Interactions
Proteins STRING associates with ABCA8
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06 / Pathways
Where ABCA8 acts, as Reactome curates it
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07 / Disease associations
Diseases linked to ABCA8
188 Open Targets disease associations; coronary artery bypass first, at 0.36.
Open Targets
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08 / Variants
Classified variants of ABCA8
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09 / Constraint
How much variation ABCA8 tolerates
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10 / Orthologs
The same gene in mouse, rat and human
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11 /MicroRNAs
MicroRNAs hosted within ABCA8
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12 / Long non-coding RNAs
Long non-coding RNAs at the ABCA8 locus
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13 / Literature
Papers that mention ABCA8
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14 / Silencing this gene
From ABCA8 to a sequence that silences it
The AUMsilence™ platform designs the sequences against the human transcripts on this page. Six decisions are yours before it does. What is written under each is AUM's guidance; the timings and the concentrations are in the usage guide below.
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Choose the region
A knockdown oligonucleotide can sit in the 5' untranslated region, the coding sequence or the 3' untranslated region, and all three are used. The coding sequence and the 3' untranslated region are the usual first choices for an RNase H design; the 5' end near the start codon suits a steric block. The map above shows where each region sits on the isoforms it draws.
02
Cover the isoforms you mean
An exon every isoform carries silences the whole gene; an exon only some isoforms carry silences those and spares the rest. Decide which you want before a sequence is chosen, and check the reference transcript (MANE Select in human; RefSeq Select and Ensembl canonical in mouse and rat) is the one your cells express.
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Think across species early
The orthologs panel says whether mouse and rat carry the same gene. Whether one oligonucleotide can serve two species is a sequence question, settled at design by matching the candidate against each transcript, not by the protein identity shown there.
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Check expression in your model
A transcript that is not expressed in your cells cannot show knockdown. Confirm the gene is expressed in the cell type and condition you will use, from your own data or a reference atlas, before the order. The expression panel above gives GTEx's median per tissue for a human gene; for mouse and rat it says that no atlas is on this page yet.
05
Run the controls
A scramble control of the same chemistry, a positive control against a gene known to knock down in your cells, untreated cells, and a mock condition where a transfection reagent is used. Read knockdown at the RNA level first, then at the protein; the usage guide gives the timing and the concentrations to start from.
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Pick the product
AUMsilence sdASO needs no transfection reagent and works in the cells that resist one. AUMsilence toASO is the transfection-optimised version of the same design, and AUMsiRNA™ is the siRNA route. The selection guide compares them.
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Gene summary
The membrane-associated protein encoded by this gene is a member of the superfamily of ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters. ABC proteins transport various molecules across extra- and intracellular membranes. ABC genes are divided into seven distinct subfamilies (ABC1, MDR/TAP, MRP, ALD, OABP, GCN20, White). This protein is a member of the ABC1 subfamily. Members of the ABC1 subfamily comprise the only major ABC subfamily found exclusively in multicellular eukaryotes. The encoded protein may regulate lipid metabolism and be involved in the formation and maintenance of myelin. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants.
Provided by RefSeq, Jan 2014, through NCBI Gene. NCBI disclaimer
Catalyzes ATP-dependent import of organic anions such as taurocholate and estrone sulfate (PubMed:12379217). In vitro, also imports ochratoxin A (PubMed:12379217). Also mediates cholesterol efflux independent of apolipoprotein, and plays a role in sphingomyelin production in oligodendrocytes (PubMed:23560799)
Catalyzes ATP-dependent efflux of cholesterol and taurocholate (PubMed:29300488). Interaction with ABCA1 potentiates cholesterol efflux to lipid-free APOA1, which regulates high-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels (PubMed:28882873)
NCBI Gene summary · NCBI Gene annotation RS_2025_08 · read · NCBI Gene 10351Data from NCBI, provided as is; NCBI's policies and disclaimers apply.
UniProtKB function · 2026_03 · read · UniProt O94911UniProt data are available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence.
pLI below 0.0001 and LOEUF 1.04 in gnomAD v4 (GRCh38), on ENST00000586539.6.
gnomAD
54 GTEx tissues; the highest median in Nerve - Tibial, 220 TPM.
GTEx
No annotated microRNA lies within ABCA8 in Ensembl release 116, on GRCh38.p14.
Ensembl · miRBase
1 long non-coding RNA gene overlaps ABCA8 in Ensembl release 116, antisense: ABCA9-AS1.
1 curated, 0 inferred Reactome pathways for O94911 in human, v97.
Reactome
886 PubMed-indexed papers mention ABCA8 at Europe PMC, newest first. Europe PMC ignores letter case, so the count also covers another species' symbol spelled with the same letters.
Europe PMC
The 21 highest-scoring STRING partners at or above a combined score of 0.4, of up to 25 asked for; SLC22A8, ABCA6, ABCC9 lead.
STRING v12.0
1,621 residues, reviewed O94911; 15 entries from the member databases this page shows along the chain; mean pLDDT 78.62; no experimental structure at PDBe.
UniProt · InterPro · AlphaFold DB · PDBe
ClinVar: 313 records for ABCA8, 11 pathogenic or likely pathogenic.
ClinVar
Mouse: 2 candidates named (Abca8b, Abca8a) and the votes differ; rat: 2 candidates named (Abca8a, Abca8) and the votes differ. RGD is not answering, so the ortholog list could not be shown. Try again later. Reference cfc4b17e-513.
Alliance · NCBI · Ensembl Compara
8 RefSeq and 44 Ensembl transcripts on GRCh38.p14; MANE Select NM_001288985.2.
NCBI Datasets · Ensembl
Placed on GRCh38.p14 (GCF_000001405.40). MANE Select marks the one transcript RefSeq and Ensembl agree is the reference for this gene.
RefSeq 8 transcripts
coding sequence, tall
untranslated region, thin
non-coding exon
intron, fixed width
Genomic strand: minus. Drawn 5' to 3', so exon 1 sits at the left here and at the highest coordinate on the chromosome.
NM_001288985.2NM_001288985.2MANE Select
A window on one transcript
One pixel of the map above stands for several bases, and a block too short to see is drawn wider than its own scale, so the map chooses a region and the sequence here chooses the window. Click an exon on a row of the map, or drag across a row; then set the exact start and end below.
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No transcript is chosen.
Once a window is chosen this panel shows its length, its G and C count as a percentage of that length, the letters it is made of, the exons it falls in, whether it crosses a junction, and its antisense strand.
Not listed, because the source places them on another assembly only: XM_054314684.1 (not placed on GRCh38.p14); XM_054314685.1 (not placed on GRCh38.p14); XM_054314686.1 (not placed on GRCh38.p14).
NCBI Datasets, RefSeq transcripts · NCBI Datasets 18.37.0; GCF_000001405.40-RS_2025_08 · read · NCBI Gene 10351Data from NCBI, provided as is; NCBI's policies and disclaimers apply.
Ensembl 44 transcripts
A window on one transcript
One pixel of the map above stands for several bases, and a block too short to see is drawn wider than its own scale, so the map chooses a region and the sequence here chooses the window. Click an exon on a row of the map, or drag across a row; then set the exact start and end below.
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No transcript is chosen.
Once a window is chosen this panel shows its length, its G and C count as a percentage of that length, the letters it is made of, the exons it falls in, whether it crosses a junction, and its antisense strand.
Lengths are spliced lengths, as each source states them. Exon ranks follow the strand: on a minus-strand gene exon 1 has the highest genomic coordinate. Reference assembly for human: GRCh38.
XM_047435108.1XM_047435108.1
NM_001288986.2NM_001288986.2
NM_001375772.1NM_001375772.1
NM_001375771.1NM_001375771.1
NM_007168.4NM_007168.4
XM_047435109.1XM_047435109.1
XM_011524192.4XM_011524192.4
scale
Drawn 5' to 3' from each transcript's exons as placed on the reference assembly; exon 1 is the 5' exon on the transcript's own strand. Exon blocks are to scale with each other, except 2 blocks too short to see, widened to a fixed few pixels; introns are drawn at one fixed width whatever their length, so the map is not to scale along the chromosome. Numbers are exon ranks along the strand; a rank is omitted where the exon is too narrow to carry it.
Drawn 5' to 3' from each transcript's exons as placed on the reference assembly; exon 1 is the 5' exon on the transcript's own strand. Exon blocks are to scale with each other, except 34 blocks too short to see, widened to a fixed few pixels; introns are drawn at one fixed width whatever their length, so the map is not to scale along the chromosome. Numbers are exon ranks along the strand; a rank is omitted where the exon is too narrow to carry it.
