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Cytogenetic band 17q21.31NCBI: 17:44,345,302-44,353,106 on the plus strand, GRCh38.p14 (GCF_000001405.40), sequence NC_000017.11, annotation GCF_000001405.40-RS_2025_08 of 2025-08-01Ensembl: 17:44,345,108-44,353,106 on the plus strand, GRCh38.p14 (GCA_000001405.29), release 116Coordinates are one-based with both ends included, as each source reports them.
Granulins are a family of secreted, glycosylated peptides that are cleaved…
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 GRN is expressed
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04 / Protein
The protein GRN encodes
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05 / Interactions
Proteins STRING associates with GRN
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06 / Pathways
Where GRN acts, as Reactome curates it
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07 / Disease associations
Diseases linked to GRN
1,681 Open Targets disease associations; neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis 11 first, at 0.80.
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08 / Variants
Classified variants of GRN
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09 / Constraint
How much variation GRN tolerates
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10 / Orthologs
The same gene in mouse, rat and human
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11 /MicroRNAs
MicroRNAs hosted within GRN
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12 / Long non-coding RNAs
Long non-coding RNAs at the GRN locus
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13 / Literature
Papers that mention GRN
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14 / Silencing this gene
From GRN 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.
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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.
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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
Granulins are a family of secreted, glycosylated peptides that are cleaved from a single precursor protein with 7.5 repeats of a highly conserved 12-cysteine granulin/epithelin motif. The 88 kDa precursor protein, progranulin, is also called proepithelin and PC cell-derived growth factor. Cleavage of the signal peptide produces mature granulin which can be further cleaved into a variety of active, 6 kDa peptides. These smaller cleavage products are named granulin A, granulin B, granulin C, etc. Epithelins 1 and 2 are synonymous with granulins A and B, respectively. Both the peptides and intact granulin protein regulate cell growth. However, different members of the granulin protein family may act as inhibitors, stimulators, or have dual actions on cell growth. Granulin family members are important in normal development, wound healing, and tumorigenesis.
Provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008, through NCBI Gene. NCBI disclaimer
Secreted protein that acts as a key regulator of lysosomal function and as a growth factor involved in inflammation, wound healing and cell proliferation (PubMed:12526812, PubMed:18378771, PubMed:28073925, PubMed:28453791, PubMed:28541286). Regulates protein trafficking to lysosomes, and also the activity of lysosomal enzymes (PubMed:28453791, PubMed:28541286). Also facilitates the acidification of lysosomes, causing degradation of mature CTSD by CTSB (PubMed:28073925). In addition, functions as a wound-related growth factor that acts directly on dermal fibroblasts and endothelial cells to promote division, migration and the formation of capillary-like tubule structures (By similarity). Also promotes epithelial cell proliferation by blocking TNF-mediated neutrophil activation preventing release of oxidants and proteases (PubMed:12526812). Moreover, modulates inflammation in neurons by preserving neurons survival, axonal outgrowth and neuronal integrity (PubMed:18378771)
Promotes proliferation of the epithelial cell line A431 in culture
Inhibits epithelial cell proliferation and induces epithelial cells to secrete IL-8
Stabilizes CTSD through interaction with CTSD leading to maintain its aspartic-type peptidase activity
NCBI Gene summary · NCBI Gene annotation RS_2025_08 · read · NCBI Gene 2896Data from NCBI, provided as is; NCBI's policies and disclaimers apply.
UniProtKB function · 2026_03 · read · UniProt P28799UniProt data are available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence.
pLI 0.01491 and LOEUF 0.610 in gnomAD v4 (GRCh38), on ENST00000053867.8.
gnomAD
No annotated microRNA lies within GRN in Ensembl release 116, on GRCh38.p14.
Ensembl · miRBase
No annotated long non-coding RNA overlaps GRN in Ensembl release 116, on GRCh38.p14.
Ensembl
54 GTEx tissues; the highest median in Esophagus - Mucosa, 535 TPM.
GTEx
1 curated, 0 inferred Reactome pathways for P28799 in human, v97.
Reactome
18,521 PubMed-indexed papers mention GRN 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
Mouse Grn by 3 of 3 votes; rat Grn by 3 of 3 votes. RGD is not answering, so the ortholog list could not be shown. Try again later. Reference 89d665fc-3a9.
Alliance · NCBI · Ensembl Compara
1 RefSeq and 46 Ensembl transcripts on GRCh38.p14; MANE Select NM_002087.4.
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 1 transcript
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_002087.4NM_002087.4MANE Select
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; 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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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.
NCBI Datasets, RefSeq transcripts · NCBI Datasets 18.37.0; GCF_000001405.40-RS_2025_08 · read · NCBI Gene 2896Data from NCBI, provided as is; NCBI's policies and disclaimers apply.
Ensembl 46 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.
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.
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.
The 25 highest-scoring STRING partners at or above a combined score of 0.4, of up to 25 asked for; SORT1, TARDBP, SLPI lead.
STRING v12.0
593 residues, reviewed P28799; 7 entries from the member databases this page shows along the chain; 8 PDB entries. AlphaFold DB answered in a shape this page does not read, so nothing is shown for the model. Reference 17623a29-d7b.
UniProt · InterPro · PDBe
ClinVar: 864 records for GRN, 151 pathogenic or likely pathogenic.
