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Cytogenetic band 19q13.33NCBI: 19:47,745,546-47,757,058 on the plus strand, GRCh38.p14 (GCF_000001405.40), sequence NC_000019.10, annotation GCF_000001405.40-RS_2025_08 of 2025-08-01Ensembl: 19:47,745,481-47,758,208 on the plus strand, GRCh38.p14 (GCA_000001405.29), release 116Coordinates are one-based with both ends included, as each source reports them.
Enables 5S rRNA binding activity; identical protein binding activity; and…
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 NOP53 is expressed
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04 / Protein
The protein NOP53 encodes
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05 / Interactions
Proteins STRING associates with NOP53
The 25 highest-scoring STRING partners at or above a combined score of 0.4, of up to 25 asked for; MTREX, FTSJ3, GTPBP4 lead.
STRING v12.0
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06 / Pathways
Where NOP53 acts, as Reactome curates it
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07 / Disease associations
Diseases linked to NOP53
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08 / Variants
Classified variants of NOP53
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09 / Constraint
How much variation NOP53 tolerates
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10 / Orthologs
The same gene in mouse, rat and human
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11 /MicroRNAs
MicroRNAs hosted within NOP53
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12 / Long non-coding RNAs
Long non-coding RNAs at the NOP53 locus
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13 / Literature
Papers that mention NOP53
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14 / Silencing this gene
From NOP53 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.
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
Enables 5S rRNA binding activity; identical protein binding activity; and p53 binding activity. Involved in several processes, including negative regulation of DNA-templated transcription; regulation of intracellular signal transduction; and regulation of protein metabolic process. Located in cytosol; nuclear lumen; and rDNA heterochromatin.
Provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Jun 2026, through NCBI Gene. NCBI disclaimer
Nucleolar protein which is involved in the integration of the 5S RNP into the ribosomal large subunit during ribosome biogenesis (PubMed:24120868). In ribosome biogenesis, may also play a role in rRNA transcription (PubMed:27729611). Also functions as a nucleolar sensor that regulates the activation of p53/TP53 in response to ribosome biogenesis perturbation, DNA damage and other stress conditions (PubMed:21741933, PubMed:24120868, PubMed:27829214). DNA damage or perturbation of ribosome biogenesis disrupt the interaction between NOP53 and RPL11 allowing RPL11 transport to the nucleoplasm where it can inhibit MDM2 and allow p53/TP53 activation (PubMed:24120868, PubMed:27829214). It may also positively regulate the function of p53/TP53 in cell cycle arrest and apoptosis through direct interaction, preventing its MDM2-dependent ubiquitin-mediated proteasomal degradation (PubMed:22522597). Originally identified as a tumor suppressor, it may also play a role in cell proliferation and apoptosis by positively regulating the stability of PTEN, thereby antagonizing the PI3K-AKT/PKB signaling pathway (PubMed:15355975, PubMed:16971513, PubMed:27729611). May also inhibit cell proliferation and increase apoptosis through its interaction with NF2 (PubMed:21167305). May negatively regulate NPM1 by regulating its nucleoplasmic localization, oligomerization and ubiquitin-mediated proteasomal degradation (PubMed:25818168). Thereby, may prevent NPM1 interaction with MYC and negatively regulate transcription mediated by the MYC-NPM1 complex (PubMed:25956029). May also regulate cellular aerobic respiration (PubMed:24556985). In the cellular response to viral infection, may play a role in the attenuation of interferon-beta through the inhibition of RIGI (PubMed:27824081)
NCBI Gene summary · NCBI Gene annotation RS_2025_08 · read · NCBI Gene 29997Data from NCBI, provided as is; NCBI's policies and disclaimers apply.
UniProtKB function · 2026_03 · read · UniProt Q9NZM5UniProt data are available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence.
385 PubMed-indexed papers mention NOP53 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
111 Open Targets disease associations; viral infectious disease first, at 0.08.
Open Targets
54 GTEx tissues; the highest median in Ovary, 1,283 TPM.
GTEx
pLI below 0.0001 and LOEUF 0.853 in gnomAD v4 (GRCh38), on ENST00000246802.10.
gnomAD
Reactome v97 maps no pathway to Q9NZM5 in human.
Reactome
478 residues, reviewed Q9NZM5; 3 entries from the member databases this page shows along the chain; mean pLDDT 78.69; 15 PDB entries.
UniProt · InterPro · AlphaFold DB · PDBe
No annotated microRNA lies within NOP53 in Ensembl release 116, on GRCh38.p14.
Ensembl · miRBase
1 long non-coding RNA gene overlaps NOP53 in Ensembl release 116, antisense: NOP53-AS1.
ClinVar: 177 records for NOP53, 11 pathogenic or likely pathogenic.
ClinVar
Mouse Nop53 by 3 of 3 votes; rat Nop53 by 3 of 3 votes. RGD is not answering, so the ortholog list could not be shown. Try again later. Reference a90ce748-87d.
Alliance · NCBI · Ensembl Compara
1 RefSeq and 41 Ensembl transcripts on GRCh38.p14; MANE Select NM_015710.5.
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_015710.5NM_015710.5MANE 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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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.
NCBI Datasets, RefSeq transcripts · NCBI Datasets 18.38.0; GCF_000001405.40-RS_2025_08 · read · NCBI Gene 29997Data from NCBI, provided as is; NCBI's policies and disclaimers apply.
Ensembl 41 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.
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.
