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The door to order for VLDLR opens with the record, which decides which product it carries. The order page itself is open now.
Cytogenetic band 9p24.2NCBI: 9:2,621,787-2,660,056 on the plus strand, GRCh38.p14 (GCF_000001405.40), sequence NC_000009.12, annotation GCF_000001405.40-RS_2025_08 of 2025-08-01Ensembl: 9:2,621,182-2,660,056 on the plus strand, GRCh38.p14 (GCA_000001405.29), release 116Coordinates are one-based with both ends included, as each source reports them.
The low density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR) gene family consists of cell…
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 VLDLR is expressed
54 GTEx tissues; the highest median in Ovary, 64.7 TPM.
GTEx
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04 / Protein
The protein VLDLR encodes
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05 / Interactions
Proteins STRING associates with VLDLR
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06 / Pathways
Where VLDLR acts, as Reactome curates it
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07 / Disease associations
Diseases linked to VLDLR
1,764 Open Targets disease associations; cerebellar ataxia, intellectual disability, and dysequilibrium first, at 0.79.
Open Targets
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08 / Variants
Classified variants of VLDLR
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09 / Constraint
How much variation VLDLR tolerates
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10 / Orthologs
The same gene in mouse, rat and human
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11 /MicroRNAs
MicroRNAs hosted within VLDLR
No annotated microRNA lies within VLDLR in Ensembl release 116, on GRCh38.p14.
Ensembl · miRBase
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12 / Long non-coding RNAs
Long non-coding RNAs at the VLDLR locus
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13 / Literature
Papers that mention VLDLR
17,889 PubMed-indexed papers mention VLDLR 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
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14 / Silencing this gene
From VLDLR 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.
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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
The low density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR) gene family consists of cell surface proteins involved in receptor-mediated endocytosis of specific ligands. This gene encodes a lipoprotein receptor that is a member of the LDLR family and plays important roles in VLDL-triglyceride metabolism and the reelin signaling pathway. Mutations in this gene cause VLDLR-associated cerebellar hypoplasia. Alternative splicing generates multiple transcript variants encoding distinct isoforms for this gene.
Provided by RefSeq, Aug 2009, through NCBI Gene. NCBI disclaimer
Multifunctional cell surface receptor that binds VLDL and transports it into cells by endocytosis and therefore plays an important role in energy metabolism. Also binds to a wide range of other molecules including Reelin/RELN or apolipoprotein E/APOE-containing ligands as well as clusterin/CLU (PubMed:24381170, PubMed:30873003). In the off-state of the pathway, forms homooligomers or heterooligomers with LRP8 (PubMed:30873003). Upon binding to ligands, homooligomers are rearranged to higher order receptor clusters that transmit the extracellular RELN signal to intracellular signaling processes by binding to DAB1 (PubMed:30873003). This interaction results in phosphorylation of DAB1 leading to the ultimate cell responses required for the correct positioning of newly generated neurons. Later, mediates a stop signal for migrating neurons, preventing them from entering the marginal zone (By similarity)
(Microbial infection) Acts as a receptor for Semliki Forest virus
(Microbial infection) Functions as a receptor for yellow fever virus
NCBI Gene summary · NCBI Gene annotation RS_2025_08 · read · NCBI Gene 7436Data from NCBI, provided as is; NCBI's policies and disclaimers apply.
UniProtKB function · 2026_03 · read · UniProt P98155UniProt data are available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence.
2 long non-coding RNA genes overlap VLDLR in Ensembl release 116, all antisense: VLDLR-AS1 and 1 without a symbol.
Mouse Vldlr by 3 of 3 votes; rat Vldlr by 3 of 3 votes. RGD is not answering, so the ortholog list could not be shown. Try again later. Reference a93c0fbb-eb9.
Alliance · NCBI · Ensembl Compara
3 curated, 0 inferred Reactome pathways for P98155 in human, v97.
Reactome
5 RefSeq and 46 Ensembl transcripts on GRCh38.p14; MANE Select NM_003383.5.
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 5 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_003383.5NM_003383.5MANE Select
NM_001018056.3NM_001018056.3
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_054363754.1 (not placed on GRCh38.p14).
NCBI Datasets, RefSeq transcripts · NCBI Datasets 18.37.0; GCF_000001405.40-RS_2025_08 · read · NCBI Gene 7436Data 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.
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.
