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HGNC and MANE Select: not available for mouse. HGNC names human genes; MGI is the authority here, and MANE Select is defined for human transcripts only.
Location
Cytogenetic band 12 F1NCBI: 12:111,635,789-111,638,772 on the minus strand, GRCm39 (GCF_000001635.27), sequence NC_000078.7, annotation GCF_000001635.27-RS_2024_02 of 2024-02-01Ensembl: 12:111,635,789-111,639,008 on the minus strand, GRCm39 (GCA_000001635.9), release 116Coordinates are one-based with both ends included, as each source reports them.
Also known as
Bck, Ck3, B-CK, Ck-3, Ckbb, CPK-B
Gene identity, from NCBI Datasets · NCBI Datasets 18.37.0 · read · MGI:88407Data from NCBI, provided as is; NCBI's policies and disclaimers apply.
Silence this gene
The order page opens with Ckb and mouse filled in. The sequences are designed against the transcripts below; the price is on that page.
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02 / Transcripts and isoforms
The RNA a design targets
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03 / Expression by tissue
Where Ckb is expressed
Expression by tissue: not available for mouse. GTEx holds human tissues only, and the Human Protein Atlas is keyed on human genes.
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04 / Protein
The protein Ckb encodes
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05 / Interactions
Proteins STRING associates with Ckb
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06 / Pathways
Where Ckb acts, as Reactome curates it
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07 / Disease associations
Diseases linked to Ckb
Disease associations: not available for mouse. Open Targets and ClinGen curate human genes only. The human ortholog's page carries the associations.
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Disease associations: not available for mouse. Open Targets and ClinGen curate human genes only. The human ortholog's page carries the associations.
08 / Variants
Classified variants of Ckb
Clinical variants: not available for mouse. ClinVar holds human variants only.
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Not available
Clinical variants: not available for mouse. ClinVar holds human variants only.
09 / Constraint
How much variation Ckb tolerates
Constraint: not available for mouse. gnomAD and Open Targets carry constraint for human genes only.
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Not available
Constraint: not available for mouse. gnomAD and Open Targets carry constraint for human genes only.
10 / Orthologs
The same gene in mouse, rat and human
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11 /MicroRNAs
MicroRNAs hosted within Ckb
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12 / Long non-coding RNAs
Long non-coding RNAs at the Ckb locus
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13 / Literature
Papers that mention Ckb
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14 / Silencing this gene
From Ckb to a sequence that silences it
The AUMsilence™ platform designs the sequences against the mouse 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.
01
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.
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.
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Gene summary
Enables creatine kinase activity. Involved in futile creatine cycle. Located in myelin sheath. Is active in mitochondrion. Is expressed in several structures, including alimentary system; central nervous system; genitourinary system; musculature; and sensory organ. Orthologous to human CKB (creatine kinase B).
Provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Jul 2025, through NCBI Gene. NCBI disclaimer
Reversibly catalyzes the transfer of phosphate between ATP and various phosphogens (e.g. creatine phosphate) (PubMed:33597756). Creatine kinase isoenzymes play a central role in energy transduction in tissues with large, fluctuating energy demands, such as skeletal muscle, heart, brain and spermatozoa (Probable). Acts as a key regulator of adaptive thermogenesis as part of the futile creatine cycle: localizes to the mitochondria of thermogenic fat cells and acts by mediating phosphorylation of creatine to initiate a futile cycle of creatine phosphorylation and dephosphorylation (PubMed:33597756). During the futile creatine cycle, creatine and N-phosphocreatine are in a futile cycle, which dissipates the high energy charge of N-phosphocreatine as heat without performing any mechanical or chemical work (PubMed:33597756)
NCBI Gene summary · NCBI Gene annotation RS_2024_02 · read · NCBI Gene 12709Data from NCBI, provided as is; NCBI's policies and disclaimers apply.
UniProtKB function · 2026_03 · read · UniProt Q04447UniProt data are available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence.
Expression by tissue: not available for mouse. GTEx holds human tissues only, and the Human Protein Atlas is keyed on human genes.
Mouse tissue expression, from Bgee and Expression Atlas, joins this page in a later phase. Nothing from the human ortholog is shown in its place; its own page is a step away through the species switch above.
381 residues, reviewed Q04447; 14 entries from the member databases this page shows along the chain; mean pLDDT 95.19; no experimental structure at PDBe.
UniProt · InterPro · AlphaFold DB · PDBe
0 curated, 2 inferred Reactome pathways for Q04447 in mouse, v97.
Reactome
4,272 PubMed-indexed papers mention Ckb at Europe PMC, newest first. Europe PMC ignores letter case, so the count also covers the human symbol where it differs from this one only in case.
Europe PMC
No annotated microRNA lies within Ckb in Ensembl release 116, on GRCm39.
Ensembl · miRBase
No annotated long non-coding RNA overlaps Ckb in Ensembl release 116, on GRCm39.
Ensembl
1 RefSeq and 39 Ensembl transcripts on GRCm39; RefSeq Select NM_021273.4; Ensembl canonical ENSMUST00000001304.9.
NCBI Datasets · Ensembl
Placed on GRCm39 (GCF_000001635.27). MANE Select: not available for mouse. The reference here is the RefSeq Select transcript and the Ensembl canonical transcript, which need not be the same model.
RefSeq 1 transcript
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_021273.4NM_021273.4RefSeq 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 18.37.0; GCF_000001635.27-RS_2024_02 · read · NCBI Gene 12709Data from NCBI, provided as is; NCBI's policies and disclaimers apply.
Ensembl 39 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 mouse: GRCm39.
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.
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.
Human CKB by 3 of 3 votes; rat Ckb by 3 of 3 votes. RGD is not answering, so the ortholog list could not be shown. Try again later. Reference 8ff44d3f-03c.
Alliance · NCBI · Ensembl Compara
The 25 highest-scoring STRING partners at or above a combined score of 0.4, of up to 25 asked for; Ckm, Asb9, Clpb lead.
