Reading the record for DPH2 from HGNC, NCBI Gene and Ensembl.Still reading. A first read of a gene can take a while; this page waits up to 115 seconds for it, and its scripts then bring in the page, or a line saying what did not arrive.
The full name, the identifiers, the location and the notes from the sources arrive with the record. Nothing is filled in ahead of it.
Order door
The door to order for DPH2 opens with the record, which decides which product it carries. The order page itself is open now.
Cytogenetic band 1p34.1NCBI: 1:43,970,010-43,973,369 on the plus strand, GRCh38.p14 (GCF_000001405.40), sequence NC_000001.11, annotation GCF_000001405.40-RS_2025_08 of 2025-08-01Ensembl: 1:43,969,975-43,973,373 on the plus strand, GRCh38.p14 (GCA_000001405.29), release 116Coordinates are one-based with both ends included, as each source reports them.
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02 / Transcripts and isoforms
The RNA a design targets
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03 / Expression by tissue
Where DPH2 is expressed
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14 / Silencing this gene
From DPH2 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.
03
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.
04
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.
GTEx's medians say how much of this gene's RNA the sampled tissues carried, tissue by tissue, in transcripts per million, and the Human Protein Atlas adds how specific that expression is and where the protein sits in the cell. Read the profile for the tissue your cells come from, then check your own model: a transcript that is not expressed in the cells you will use cannot show knockdown, and a bulk tissue median is not a cell line.
The median is the middle sample of a tissue, so a gene expressed in a few cells of a mixed tissue reads low here and may still be the one your cell type needs. Nothing on this panel is adjusted or averaged across tissues; each figure is the source's own, and a tissue GTEx did not sample is absent from the chart.
04 / Protein
The protein DPH2 encodes
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05 / Interactions
Proteins STRING associates with DPH2
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06 / Pathways
Where DPH2 acts, as Reactome curates it
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07 / Disease associations
Diseases linked to DPH2
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08 / Variants
Classified variants of DPH2
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09 / Constraint
How much variation DPH2 tolerates
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10 / Orthologs
The same gene in mouse, rat and human
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11 /MicroRNAs
MicroRNAs hosted within DPH2
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12 / Long non-coding RNAs
Long non-coding RNAs at the DPH2 locus
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13 / Literature
Papers that mention DPH2
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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.
06
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.
For research use only. Not for use in diagnostic or therapeutic procedures.
This gene is one of two human genes similar to the yeast gene dph2.
NCBI Gene summary
11 RefSeq and 45 Ensembl transcripts on GRCh38.p14; MANE Select NM_001384.5.
NCBI Datasets · Ensembl
The 25 highest-scoring STRING partners at or above a combined score of 0.4, of up to 25 asked for; DPH1, DPH5, DPH3 lead.
STRING v12.0
64 Open Targets disease associations; developmental delay with short stature, dysmorphic facial features, and sparse hair 2 first, at 0.54.
Open Targets
Mouse Dph2 by 3 of 3 votes; rat: 2 candidates named (Dph2, Atp6v0b) and the votes differ. RGD is not answering, so the ortholog list could not be shown. Try again later. Reference c3c75705-1a2.
Alliance · NCBI · Ensembl Compara
No annotated microRNA lies within DPH2 in Ensembl release 116, on GRCh38.p14.
Ensembl · miRBase
1 long non-coding RNA gene overlaps DPH2 in Ensembl release 116, antisense, without a symbol.
313 PubMed-indexed papers mention DPH2 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
Gene summary
This gene is one of two human genes similar to the yeast gene dph2. The yeast gene was identified by its ability to complement a diphthamide mutant strain, and thus probably functions in diphthamide biosynthesis. Diphthamide is a post-translationally modified histidine residue present in elongation factor 2 (EF2) that is the target of diphtheria toxin ADP-ribosylation. Multiple transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene.
Provided by RefSeq, Jan 2016, through NCBI Gene. NCBI disclaimer
Required for the first step of diphthamide biosynthesis, a post-translational modification of histidine which occurs in elongation factor 2 (PubMed:32576952). DPH1 and DPH2 transfer a 3-amino-3-carboxypropyl (ACP) group from S-adenosyl-L-methionine (SAM) to a histidine residue, the reaction is assisted by a reduction system comprising DPH3 and a NADH-dependent reductase (By similarity). Facilitates the reduction of the catalytic iron-sulfur cluster found in the DPH1 subunit (By similarity)
NCBI Gene summary · NCBI Gene annotation RS_2025_08 · read · NCBI Gene 1802Data from NCBI, provided as is; NCBI's policies and disclaimers apply.
UniProtKB function · 2026_03 · read · UniProt Q9BQC3UniProt data are available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence.
Placed on GRCh38.p14 (GCF_000001405.40). MANE Select marks the one transcript RefSeq and Ensembl agree is the reference for this gene.
RefSeq 11 transcripts
coding sequence, tall
untranslated region, thin
non-coding exon
intron, fixed width
Genomic strand: plus. Drawn 5' to 3', so exon 1 sits at the left here and at the lowest coordinate on the chromosome.
NM_001384.5NM_001384.5MANE Select
NM_001319170.2NM_001319170.2
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; 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.
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_054334798.1 (not placed on GRCh38.p14); XM_054334799.1 (not placed on GRCh38.p14).
NCBI Datasets, RefSeq transcripts · NCBI Datasets 18.38.0; GCF_000001405.40-RS_2025_08 · read · NCBI Gene 1802Data from NCBI, provided as is; NCBI's policies and disclaimers apply.
Ensembl 45 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.
These controls are ready in a moment.
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.
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; 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.
pLI below 0.0001 and LOEUF 0.904 in gnomAD v4 (GRCh38), on ENST00000255108.8.
gnomAD
54 GTEx tissues; the highest median in Cells - EBV-transformed lymphocytes, 46.8 TPM.
GTEx
1 curated, 0 inferred Reactome pathways for Q9BQC3 in human, v97.
Reactome
489 residues, reviewed Q9BQC3; 11 entries from the member databases this page shows along the chain; mean pLDDT 83.25; no experimental structure at PDBe.
UniProt · InterPro · AlphaFold DB · PDBe
ClinVar: 120 records for DPH2, 12 pathogenic or likely pathogenic.
