Reading the record for Rock2 from 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.
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The door to order for Rock2 opens with the record, which decides which product it carries. The order page itself is open now.
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 A1.1NCBI: 12:16,944,808-17,038,275 on the plus strand, GRCm39 (GCF_000001635.27), sequence NC_000078.7, annotation GCF_000001635.27-RS_2024_02 of 2024-02-01Ensembl: 12:16,944,797-17,037,834 on the plus strand, GRCm39 (GCA_000001635.9), 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
7 RefSeq and 33 Ensembl transcripts on GRCm39; RefSeq Select NM_009072.2; Ensembl canonical ENSMUST00000020904.9.
NCBI Datasets · Ensembl
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03 / Expression by tissue
Where Rock2 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 Rock2 encodes
1,388 residues, reviewed P70336; 36 entries from the member databases this page shows along the chain; mean pLDDT 76.5; no experimental structure at PDBe.
UniProt · InterPro · AlphaFold DB · PDBe
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05 / Interactions
Proteins STRING associates with Rock2
The 25 highest-scoring STRING partners at or above a combined score of 0.4, of up to 25 asked for; Rhoa, Ppp1r12a, Myl12b lead.
STRING v12.0
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06 / Pathways
Where Rock2 acts, as Reactome curates it
0 curated, 10 inferred Reactome pathways for P70336 in mouse, v97.
Reactome
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07 / Disease associations
Diseases linked to Rock2
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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Not available
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 Rock2
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 Rock2 tolerates
Constraint: not available for mouse. gnomAD and Open Targets carry constraint for human genes only.
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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
Human ROCK2 by 3 of 3 votes; rat Rock2 by 3 of 3 votes. RGD is not answering, so the ortholog list could not be shown. Try again later. Reference 5d863afc-de9.
Alliance · NCBI · Ensembl Compara
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11 /MicroRNAs
MicroRNAs hosted within Rock2
No annotated microRNA lies within Rock2 in Ensembl release 116, on GRCm39.
Ensembl · miRBase
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12 / Long non-coding RNAs
Long non-coding RNAs at the Rock2 locus
No annotated long non-coding RNA overlaps Rock2 in Ensembl release 116, on GRCm39.
Ensembl
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13 / Literature
Papers that mention Rock2
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14 / Silencing this gene
From Rock2 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 protein serine/threonine kinase activity. Involved in several processes, including negative regulation of nitric oxide biosynthetic process; regulation of gene expression; and regulation of signal transduction. Acts upstream of or within several processes, including extrinsic apoptotic signaling pathway via death domain receptors; nervous system development; and positive regulation of centrosome duplication. Located in spindle pole centrosome. Is active in several cellular components, including Schaffer collateral - CA1 synapse; glutamatergic synapse; and postsynaptic density. Is expressed in several structures, including central nervous system; genitourinary system; heart; musculature; and somite. Orthologous to human ROCK2 (Rho associated coiled-coil containing protein kinase 2).
Provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Jun 2026, through NCBI Gene. NCBI disclaimer
Protein kinase which is a key regulator of actin cytoskeleton and cell polarity. Involved in regulation of smooth muscle contraction, actin cytoskeleton organization, stress fiber and focal adhesion formation, neurite retraction, cell adhesion and motility via phosphorylation of ADD1, BRCA2, CNN1, EZR, DPYSL2, EP300, MSN, MYL9/MLC2, NPM1, RDX, PPP1R12A and VIM. Phosphorylates SORL1 and IRF4. Acts as a negative regulator of VEGF-induced angiogenic endothelial cell activation. Positively regulates the activation of p42/MAPK1-p44/MAPK3 and of p90RSK/RPS6KA1 during myogenic differentiation. Plays an important role in the timely initiation of centrosome duplication. Inhibits keratinocyte terminal differentiation. May regulate closure of the eyelids and ventral body wall through organization of actomyosin bundles. Plays a critical role in the regulation of spine and synaptic properties in the hippocampus. Plays a role in placental homeostasis during the perinatal period. Plays an important role in generating the circadian rhythm of the aortic myofilament Ca(2+) sensitivity and vascular contractility by modulating the myosin light chain phosphorylation
NCBI Gene summary · NCBI Gene annotation RS_2024_02 · read · NCBI Gene 19878Data from NCBI, provided as is; NCBI's policies and disclaimers apply.
UniProtKB function · 2026_03 · read · UniProt P70336UniProt data are available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence.
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 7 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_009072.2NM_009072.2RefSeq Select
XM_036157270.1XM_036157270.1
XM_036157271.1XM_036157271.1
XM_036157273.1XM_036157273.1
XM_036157272.1XM_036157272.1
XM_036157274.1XM_036157274.1
XM_036157275.1XM_036157275.1
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, except 8 blocks too short to see, widened to a fixed few pixels; 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.
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, except 30 blocks too short to see, widened to a fixed few pixels; 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.
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.
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.
7,097 PubMed-indexed papers mention Rock2 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.
